U+F97C "良" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F97C "良" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a CJK compatibility ideograph representing a variant form of the character for "good" or "excellent," which is typically written as 良 in standard Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts. This specific glyph originates from a Chinese industrial standard (such as CNS 11643) and was encoded in the Compatibility Ideographs block to preserve its distinct shape for legacy text conversion or interchange, ensuring that the original visual representation from older character sets is not lost when mapping to modern Unicode standards. It is not intended for general use in contemporary writing but exists to maintain fidelity when converting documents that used this particular variant.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F97C
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	"良" U+826F CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	良
HTML Hex Encoding	良
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF97C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F97C
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf97c

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	"良" U+826F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"良" U+826F 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+826F
kDefinition	good, virtuous, respectable
kHangul	양:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6550
kKorean	YANG
kNelson	3885
kRSUnicode	138.1
kTotalStrokes	7