What 啕 means
It carries 啕’s meaning, not a separate everyday word.
A related form, 咷, appears in the Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese dictionary submitted in 121 CE; its entry describes a child crying without stopping. Later dictionaries connect 咷, 䛬 and 啕. In current Chinese, 啕 occurs chiefly in 嚎啕 and 號啕, compounds for loud wailing. Unicode lists 啕 with source identifier KP1-39EF in KPS 10721-2000, a North Korean supplementary Hanja repertoire. The compatibility character preserves that repertoire’s distinction for round-trip interchange; it was not created as a new everyday word.
Why does 啕 become 啕?
Compatibility normalization applies its mapping.
Unicode maps 啕 to 啕 for compatibility. NFKC and NFKD use that mapping, while NFC and NFD preserve 啕. A system using NFKC or NFKD can therefore erase the source distinction in a saved or searched string.
How do I preserve 啕?
Keep it unnormalized and verify the code point.
If your input method accepts hexadecimal Unicode entry, enter UFA79; entering 啕 produces the mapped ideograph U5555. Check the stored code point after saving or importing. Fonts supply glyphs: a font without one for UFA79 may show a box even when the text still contains 啕.
Technical and archival: it preserves a source distinction during text interchange.
For ordinary Chinese writing, use 啕; NFKC or NFKD can erase 啕’s distinction.
Who writes 啕
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Questions people ask
3Is 啕 a Chinese or Korean character?
It has both contexts: 啕 is an encoding entry from a North Korean supplementary Hanja repertoire, while its mapped character 啕 belongs to the wider Chinese-character tradition.
Why does 啕 appear as a box?
The font may lack a glyph for UFA79. The text can still contain 啕; check its code point to tell whether the stored character changed.
Can I use 啕 in ordinary Chinese text?
Usually, write 啕. 啕 preserves a source distinction for text interchange; it is not a general alternate spelling in Chinese.
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How to type or find 啕
- Search it as
- 啕 · FA79 · U+FA79 · 啕 · 咷 · 䛬 · 啕字 · compatibility ideograph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
啕\FA79Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.