What 龩 means
It is a specialized character associated with household registration.
A Chinese dictionary labels it as a character used in household registration—the official recording of residents—and separately calls it an erroneous form of 蘄. Hong Kong's HKSCS (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set) lists its Cantonese entry in Jyutping, a system that writes Cantonese sounds with Latin letters and tone numbers, as gan3. The same reference gives Cangjie code TTJL (廿廿十中); Cangjie is an input method that maps character components to letter codes.
What does 龩's HKSCS record show?
It documents an electronic character entry, not the form's origin.
Hong Kong began its Government Common Character Set in 1995 because standard encodings lacked locally needed characters for electronic exchange. The expanded HKSCS was published in 1999 after characters were gathered from Hong Kong sectors, including names, places, and Cantonese writing.
The HKSCS-2008 specification, published in December 2009, lists 龩 as H-8CB7. That dates a computer-encoding record; it does not establish when the written form first appeared.
Specialist and administrative; outside a relevant written context, 龩 may be hard to interpret.
If you mean 蘄, use 蘄; a dictionary calls 龩 an erroneous form of it.
Who writes 龩
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 龩 show as a box?
Your font may not include a glyph for 龩. HKSCS assigns character codes but does not prescribe one universal glyph drawing, so display depends on font coverage.
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How to type or find 龩
- Search it as
- 龩 meaning · HKSCS 龩 · 龩 gan3 · 龩 Cangjie · 龩 TTJL · 龩 蘄 · household-registration character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
龩\9FA9Codes and encoding1 code points
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