U+F983 "旅" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F983 "旅" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph that represents the traditional Chinese compound word 旅行, meaning "travel" or "journey," and is derived from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, which was created to support round-trip encoding compatibility with older East Asian character set standards like CNS 11643 and JIS X 0208. Unlike ordinary CJK Unified Ideographs, this character is encoded as a single code point specifically for legacy text interchange, and it is not intended for general modern use, as the same meaning is typically expressed using the separate characters 旅 (U+65C5) and 行 (U+884C) in standard Unicode. Its primary purpose is to preserve the exact mapping of certain pre-existing coded character sets, ensuring that documents from those systems can be converted to Unicode without loss of information.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F983
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	"旅" U+65C5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	旅
HTML Hex Encoding	旅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA6 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF983
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F983
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf983

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	"旅" U+65C5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"旅" U+65C5 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+65C5
kDefinition	trip, journey; travel; traveler
kHangul	여:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6621
kKorean	YE
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14088+70.4.6
kRSUnicode	70.6
kTotalStrokes	10