U+F9CA "流" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+F9CA "流" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph representing a variant or duplicate form of a standard CJK character, specifically corresponding to the Chinese character "流," which means "to flow" or "a stream." It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, a collection of characters encoded primarily for round-trip compatibility with older character encoding standards like CNS 11643 or IBM 935, ensuring that pre-existing text could be mapped into Unicode without loss. While visually identical or very similar to its standard counterpart U+6D41, this compatibility version is not recommended for ordinary text use, as it exists mainly to support legacy data and document conversion.

General Properties

Code Point	U+F9CA
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	"流" U+6D41 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	流
HTML Hex Encoding	流
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xA7 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xF9CA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000F9CA
C/C++/Java Escape	\uf9ca

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	"流" U+6D41 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"流" U+6D41 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+6D41
kDefinition	flow, circulate, drift; class
kHangul	유:0
kIRG_KSource	K0-6A7C
kKorean	YU
kRSUnicode	85.6
kTotalStrokes	9