悔 CJK Compatibility Ideograph FA3D

What 悔 means

悔 carries the meaning of 悔: regret, remorse, or feeling vexed. In Japanese encoding, it is a compatibility form associated with JIS X 0213:2000, preserving a Japanese source-glyph distinction during conversion so text can round-trip through the standard.

悔 itself has a much longer history. Chinese dictionary entries include regret after an act and changing one's conduct; in Japanese, 悔 is read くいる (regret), くやむ (regret or remorse), or くやしい (feel vexed).

Use 悔 for new writing. Keep 悔 when exact legacy data or the original source glyph matters; compatibility normalization or conversion can reduce it to 悔. That changes the stored character, not the feeling.

What if someone sends 悔 alone?

Read it as 悔, with no extra emotional shade established. If the surrounding text preserves legacy Japanese data or discusses typography, ask about that context.

Fonts can preserve the Japanese form, make the distinction hard to see, or show a missing-glyph box. Those are rendering outcomes, not different meanings.

Technical and archival; it signals exact text preservation, not an extra shade of regret.

Do not send it as a stylistic upgrade to 悔; recipients may see an encoding oddity.

Who writes 悔

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

A preserved Japanese source form of 悔; keep it for round-trip fidelity.

Don't confuse it with

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CJK Unified Ideograph-6094

悔 is the ordinary unified form. Fonts can make it look identical to 悔, so appearance alone may not reveal which character is stored.

Questions people ask

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Will normalization change 悔?

Yes. Unicode compatibility normalization (NFKC or NFKD) can map 悔 to 悔; it standardizes compatibility variants. Keep source-preserving text intact when that distinction matters.