What 寮 means
Its meaning follows 寮, not a separate word.
Older forms of 寮 appear in oracle-bone writing on animal bones and turtle shells, and in inscriptions on bronze vessels. Early senses linked a sacred building to its officials; Japanese uses include “dormitory,” while Chinese dictionaries give “small room” or “hut.”
The 1987 Korean standard KS C 5601 lists 寮 as K0-6870, linked to KS X 1001. Unicode preserves this separate form for round-trip conversion; NFC/NFD can turn it into 寮.
Who writes 寮
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 寮 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 寮
- Search it as
- u+f9bc · f9bc · 寮 · k0-6870
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
寮\F9BCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.