CJK Compatibility Ideograph F97E

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What does 量 mean?

It has the meaning of 量: measure, amount, or capacity.

The much older character 量 has a weighing sense in Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, and the dictionary records 𨤥 as an older graphic form. A bronze measuring vessel from China’s Warring States period has a nine-line inscription setting volume standards, dated between 404 and 385 BCE. This is evidence for the older 量 tradition, not for the later compatibility character.

The compatibility character was included in Korea’s KS X 1001 text standard so older Korean text could round-trip through Unicode. It preserves a legacy source distinction, not a separate meaning.

Why does 量 change to 量?

Unicode normalization maps it to 量.

All four Unicode normalization forms map 量 to 量. The two forms may look alike on screen even though the stored text differs, so normalization can change the data without an obvious visual change.

In Korean, 量 is Hanja, a Chinese character used in Korean. It is read 량 in some Sino-Korean compounds and 양 in compounds with native or borrowed words; the reading depends on how the word is formed.