What 敖 means
It is a source-preserving form of 敖, not a separate everyday character. In ordinary text, read it as 敖; its separate identity preserves an older source mapping.
敖 is much older: forms appear in oracle-bone inscriptions, early Chinese writing cut into bones or turtle shells, and in bronze inscriptions. Historical dictionaries record senses including roaming, joking or making noise, and arrogance; these belong to 敖 and words built from it. As of 2026, the KPS standards themselves have not been seen outside North Korea.
Why does FA90 normalize to 敖?
Unicode normalization maps FA90 to 敖. The Unicode chart connects the source label KP1-480E to FA90 and its unified counterpart 敖.
Use 敖 for newly written Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text. Keep 敖 only when a legacy file or conversion test must preserve the North Korean source distinction. KP1-480E names the KPS slot; it is a lookup label, not a pronunciation or keystroke.
Technical and archival: it marks a North Korean source mapping, not a different everyday meaning.
Need the source identity? Normalization can replace FA90 with 敖.
Who writes 敖
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 敖 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 敖
- Search it as
- FA90 · U+FA90 · KP1-480E · 敖 · KPS 10721 · compatibility ideograph · FA90 normalization
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
敖\FA90Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.