U+F971 "辰" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F971 "辰" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard to represent a variant or duplicate form of a CJK Unified Ideograph, specifically corresponding to the ordinary character U+8FB0 "辰" (meaning "time," "day," or the fifth Earthly Branch in the Chinese zodiac). It was encoded in the Compatibility Ideographs block to preserve roundtrip compatibility with older character set standards, such as CNS 11643 or JIS X 0213, where this specific glyph shape appears. Despite its distinct graphical presentation, it is considered a duplicate character that should ideally be normalized to its unified counterpart in modern text processing, often flagged for mapping or conversion rather than independent use in new content.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F971
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	"辰" U+8FB0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	辰
HTML Hex Encoding	辰
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF971
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F971
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf971

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	"辰" U+8FB0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"辰" U+8FB0 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+8FB0
kDefinition	early morning
kHangul	신:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6375
kKorean	SIN
kRSUnicode	161.0
kTotalStrokes	7