CJK Compatibility Ideograph FA92

FA92 represents 朗, the Han character for “bright” or “clear.”

The old Chinese character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi defines 朗 as “bright.” It describes 月 as the part carrying meaning and 良 as the part suggesting the sound.

Across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, its core sense is brightness or clarity. Chinese references also use it for clear speech, lucidity, openness, and resonant sound; Japanese usage includes cheerful; Korean hanja (Chinese-origin characters used in Korean) glosses it as clear or bright.

The Unicode chart pairs FA92 with KP1-4A42, which Unicode associates with KPS 10721-2000, North Korea’s character standard. Compatibility ideographs let older character encodings preserve their source distinctions in Unicode.

Why does 朗 become 朗?

Normalization maps 朗 to 朗 because Unicode treats them as canonically equivalent.

Text search or conversion can therefore show the unified character 朗 instead of FA92. The Unicode chart lists 朗︁ (朗 followed by variation selector U+FE01) as a variation sequence that requests the source-specific glyph form.

The active font may lack an FA92 glyph, leaving a missing-character box. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts can also draw Han characters in regionally different styles. The box signals missing font coverage, not a different meaning.