What 擄 means
It is the compatibility form of 擄, meaning “capture by force.”
擄 means to seize or capture someone, usually by force; 掳 is its simplified Chinese form. In Korean, 擄 is a Hanja character—one of the Chinese characters used in Korean writing—with the same capture or raid sense.
擄 is an encoding-era compatibility form. Unicode maps it to 擄 through source slot K0-5242 in KS X 1001:1998, a Korean character-set standard used for legacy text conversion. Fonts may show regional glyph designs or lack coverage. Unicode normalization can replace 擄 with 擄. Use 擄 for ordinary text; retain 擄 when the exact encoded source matters.
Technical and archival, not conversational.
If exact source identity matters, do not normalize.
Who writes 擄
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Questions people ask
1Why does 擄 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 擄
- Search it as
- F930 · U+F930 · 擄 · 擄 · 掳 · hanja · compatibility ideograph · normalization
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
擄\F930Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.