What 隷 means
It carries 隷's meaning; 隷 preserves a Korean encoding distinction.
The underlying character means a servant or someone subordinate. In Japanese, 隷書 names a traditional style of writing Han characters.
The documented computer-era source is entry K0-6766 in the Korean standard KS C 5601:1987. Korean Hanja are Chinese-origin characters used in Korean writing; that standard assigned duplicate codes to some Hanja for different Korean readings. Unicode kept the separate identity so conversion back to the older character set can recover the source entry.
Why does 隷 turn into 隷?
Normalization turns 隷 into its unified counterpart, 隷.
That is deliberate: compatibility ideographs have a canonical mapping to a unified Han character, and Unicode normalization follows it. NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD can all turn 隷 into 隷. The result may look unchanged, but it no longer carries the original code point.
Use 隷 for ordinary text and reserve 隷 for records where the Korean source identity matters. A font without a glyph may show a placeholder; a font that supports both may draw them alike.
Archival and technical: it marks an exact legacy character-set distinction.
Do not use 隷 as decoration; normalization can erase its exact identity.
Who writes 隷
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
2Why does 隷 look like 隷?
Some fonts use the same design for both Han characters, so their compatibility distinction may be invisible.
Can normalization preserve UFA2F?
No. NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD can all turn 隷 into 隷; use a code-point-preserving workflow when the legacy identity matters.
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How to type or find 隷
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- fa2f · u+fa2f · f9b8 · u+96b7 · 隷 · hanja · normalization · nfc
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
隷\FA2F隷 in HTML source when you need an explicit character reference.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.