CJK compatibility ideograph F94E

Read 漏 as 漏: leaking, disclosure, or omission. The underlying character can describe liquid or gas escaping, information getting out, or something being left out. In compounds, 漏 can also name a water clock that marks time as water drips through it.

A Chinese dictionary from the Han period called 《說文》 describes 漏 as a copper water clock. A related written form, 屚, describes rain entering through a roof. Later Chinese, Japanese, and Korean uses extend the leak idea to disclosure and omission. In Japanese Buddhist vocabulary, 漏 can also mean mental impurities, pictured as things that flow out. The character 漏 has a long history; 漏 is a later compatibility form kept for legacy text encoding.

Why is 漏 a separate code point from 漏?

It preserves a second Korean encoding entry for 漏. KS X 1001, a Korean character-encoding standard, assigned 漏 two entries: 55-09 for 루 (the Korean syllable “ru,” roughly “roo”) and 50-72 for 누 (“nu,” roughly “noo”) at the start of a word. 漏 preserves the 누 entry; it adds no new dictionary meaning.

Should I normalize 漏?

Keep 漏 for legacy fidelity; normalize it for ordinary text. NFKC and NFKD compatibility normalization map 漏 to 漏, which helps comparison and search but erases the separate code point. Preserve the original string when converting archived KS X 1001 or EUC-KR, an older Korean encoding, if you may need round-trip recovery.