U+F9C7 "劉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9C7 "劉" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph from the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, specifically representing a variant form of the Chinese character "劉" (Liú), which is a common surname in East Asian cultures. This character is encoded as part of the compatibility zone in Unicode to ensure roundtrip conversion compatibility with older character encoding standards, such as certain Japanese or Korean standards, where it may have been treated as a distinct glyph. Primarily used in East Asian text processing, it allows legacy documents to be preserved without loss of information, but it is typically considered a duplicate of the standard unified CJK character U+5289 劉.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9C7
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	"劉" U+5289 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	劉
HTML Hex Encoding	劉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9C7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9C7
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9c7

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	"劉" U+5289 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"劉" U+5289 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+5289
kDefinition	surname; kill, destroy
kHangul	유:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6A65
kKorean	YU
kRSUnicode	18.13
kTotalStrokes	15