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.