Compatibility form of 煮 (FA9C)

It denotes cooking food in liquid. In Chinese, 煮 describes putting food into water or soup and heating it until cooked.

The documented history of the character spans late Shang to Warring States bronze forms, passes through variants, and leads to regular 煮. In Japanese recipe language, 煮る covers boiling and can also mean simmering, stewing, or braising.

Why does FA9C look different from 煮?

It preserves a source-specific form of 煮. Unicode maps FA9C to the ordinary character and associates it with KP1-5559 in North Korea’s KPS 10721 character set. NFKC and NFKD, the compatibility forms of Unicode normalization, can fold it to 煮; the glyph may change while the intended reading stays the same.

For ordinary Chinese or Japanese writing, use 煮. Keep 煮 in source-preserved text or font tests; it identifies the source form rather than a different cooking method.