U+F966 "復" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F966 "復" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, designed to represent a variant or simplified form of the standard Chinese character "複" or "復" (meaning to repeat, restore, or reply) that was used in legacy encoding systems like CNS 11643 or other East Asian character sets before Unicode unification. This specific code point exists solely for round-trip conversion compatibility with older text data, ensuring that documents created in those original encodings can be accurately preserved without losing their distinct glyph shapes. In modern Unicode usage, it is generally recommended to use the unified CJK character for "複" (U+8907) or "復" (U+5FA9) instead of this compatibility character, unless the original formatting or historical context requires its exact representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F966
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Compatibility Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Compatibility Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"復" U+5FA9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	復
HTML Hex Encoding	復
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF966
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F966
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf966

Unicode Properties

Full Composition Exclusion	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"復" U+5FA9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"復" U+5FA9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
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

Unihan Properties

kCompatibilityVariant	U+5FA9
kDefinition	return; repeat; repeatedly
kHangul	부:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5D25
kKorean	PWU
kRSUnicode	60.9
kTotalStrokes	12