What 磌 means
It keeps a legacy Hanja code position intact during text conversion.
FAAB is the Unicode form for source position KP1-6083 in North Korea’s KPS 10721-2000, a supplementary Hanja code standard. Hanja are Chinese characters used in Korean writing.
Unicode retained the compatibility form so conversion to and from that repertoire can preserve the original position. Its role is an encoding distinction, not a separate everyday word.
Why does FAAB change or look different?
Normalization can replace UFAAB with U78CC (磌).
Both map to the same unified Han ideograph. Unicode also defines separate standardized variation sequences for 磌 and 磌 , so the two compatibility forms keep different identities and are not substitutes for each other’s source position.
A CJK font draws the glyph: regional conventions can change its shape, and missing font coverage can leave a box. The display change does not change the character’s code point.
Technical and archival: it marks source-form fidelity, not mood or emphasis.
A displayed glyph does not prove that the original FAAB code point survived normalization.
Who writes 磌
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Don't confuse it with
1磌 The unified counterpart. Normalization can replace FAAB with this ideograph while dropping the compatibility code-point identity.
Questions people ask
1Should I use FAAB for ordinary Korean Hanja text?
No. It is a compatibility form for preserving an encoding position; ordinary text should use the unified ideograph when no legacy source constraint applies.
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How to type or find 磌
- Search it as
- FAAB · U+FAAB · 78CC · 磌 · KP1-6083 · KPS 10721-2000 · Hanja · normalization
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
磌\FAABCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.