U+98DC "飜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

飜

U+98DC "飜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to turn over," "to flip," or "to reverse," and it is often used in classical and literary contexts as a variant or alternative form of the more common character 翻. In Japanese, it is also part of the Kanji set, where it carries similar meanings of overturning or translating, and it appears in compounds like 翻弄 (honrō, meaning "to toy with" or "to toss about"). This character is composed of the radical 飛 (fei, meaning "to fly") on top and 番 (ban, meaning "a turn" or "a number") below, visually suggesting the action of flipping or turning something around. Though less common in modern simplified Chinese, where 翻 is preferred, 飜 remains an important glyph for historical texts, calligraphy, and in languages like Japanese and Korean that still use traditional characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+98DC
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	飜
HTML Hex Encoding	飜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA3 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x98DC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000098DC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u98dc

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	23505E
kCNS1986	E-5E7C
kCNS1992	3-5E7C
kCangjie	HWNOO
kCantonese	faan1
kCihaiT	1489.202
kDaeJaweon	1939.060
kDefinition	flip over, upset, capsize
kEACC	2D5259
kFanqie	孚袁
kFourCornerCode	2261.3
kHangul	번:0E
kHanYu	74514.020
kIICore	AKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1939.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74514.020
kIRGKangXi	1415.250
kIRG_GSource	GE-544A
kIRG_HSource	H-9660
kIRG_JSource	J0-664C
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-DDD3
kIRG_KSource	K0-5B68
kIRG_TSource	T3-5E7C
kJapanese	ハンホンひるがえる
kJinmeiyoKanji	2010:U+7FFB
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	HIRUGAERU
kJapaneseOn	HON HAN
kJis0	7044
kKangXi	1415.250
kKorean	PEN
kMandarin	fān
kMojiJoho	MJ028335
kMorohashi	44009
kNelson	5153
kPhonetic	338
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6201+183.9.12
kRSUnicode	183.12
kSBGY	114.44
kSemanticVariant	U+7FFB<kSMSZD2003Index:TZ
kSMSZD2003Index	778.01
kSMSZD2003Readings	fān粵faan1
kTaiwanTelegraph	9491
kTang	*piæn
kTotalStrokes	21
kUnihanCore2020	HJKP
kXerox	322:170