U+FA97 "流" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+FA97 "流" CJK Compatibility Ideograph-# is a compatibility ideograph included in the Unicode standard to represent a variant or simplified form of a CJK character originally used in East Asian character encoding systems, such as those from China, Japan, or Korea, to ensure round-trip compatibility with older legacy encodings. This specific character corresponds to a variant of the standard CJK unified ideograph U+8CB8, which means "lend" or "loan" in Chinese and Japanese. Unlike ordinary unified characters in the CJK Unified Ideographs block, compatibility ideographs like U+FA97 are preserved for historical and encoding fidelity reasons, and they are not generally recommended for use in modern text due to duplication with unified forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FA97
Version Added	4.1
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 0xAA 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFA97
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FA97
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufa97

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
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-5128
kRSUnicode	85.6
kTotalStrokes	9