CJK Compatibility Ideograph FA09

Read it as 降; the word and language choose the sense.

In Chinese, 降 has two readings: jiàng means come down, fall, lower, or be bestowed; xiáng means yield, surrender, or subdue. Japanese compounds use the character for descending, precipitation, lowering, and yielding. Korean Hanja compounds read it 강 or 항 depending on the word, with senses including descent, lowering, or surrender.

The exact form 降 does not create a separate meaning. It carries the meaning of 降 in the surrounding word.

Why does this exact form exist?

It preserves a distinction from an older Korean encoding.

降 appears in oracle-bone inscriptions from the late Shang period—writing carved on animal bones and turtle shells—and later in bronze inscriptions, manuscripts from ancient Chu, Qin-era slips, seal script, and clerical script. The older graph 夅 is recorded as an early form and remains the right-hand component of 降. That history belongs to 降; 降 is a later computer-encoding form.

The Unicode chart links 降 to Korean source K0-7A22 and maps it to 降. Some older Korean standards encoded identical Hanja more than once to preserve pronunciation distinctions during conversion; this compatibility character supports round trips between encodings.

How can I preserve the exact form?

Enter 降 itself; ordinary text input usually gives 降.

降 has a canonical decomposition to 降. Unicode normalization or a converter may therefore replace it with 降. When exact identity matters, compare code points before normalizing or converting a legacy file; the two characters can look alike while the stored identities differ.