U+F97F "勵" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F97F "勵" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is one of many compatibility ideographs included in Unicode to preserve roundtrip conversion fidelity with legacy East Asian character encoding standards, particularly those used in older Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) systems. It represents a variant or duplicate mapping of a specific CJK unified ideograph that appears in standards like the IBM 32 or other vendor-defined character sets, but it is distinct from the standard unified ideograph in CJK Unified Ideographs. For practical purposes, this character is rarely used in modern text and serves primarily as a historical or compatibility reference rather than as a distinct, common written character.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F97F
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	"勵" U+52F5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	勵
HTML Hex Encoding	勵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA5 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF97F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F97F
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf97f

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	"勵" U+52F5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"勵" U+52F5 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+52F5
kDefinition	strive; encourage
kHangul	여:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-657A
kKorean	YE
kRSUnicode	19.15
kTotalStrokes	16