CJK compatibility ideograph FA06

Read 暴 as the character 暴. The compatibility form adds no new meaning. Depending on the language and word, 暴 can mean violent or forceful, or sudden; it can also mean exposing something. The surrounding word determines the pronunciation and nuance.

The recognisable ancestor appears in oracle-bone inscriptions—early writing carved on animal bones and turtle shells—around 1250–1000 BCE. Its early form is interpreted as hands laying grain in sunlight, linked to “expose” or “dry in the sun.” Later meanings include suddenness, violence, and force. Historical dictionaries also record connected forms 曓 and 㬥. 曝 combines the sun sign 日 with 暴 and specializes in exposing something to sunlight. This history belongs to 暴, not to the FA06 encoding.

Why does 暴 turn into 暴?

Compatibility normalization can map it to 暴. Unicode records FA06 as a compatibility character mapped to U+66B4 暴. It preserves an encoding distinction used for East Asian text; it does not create another word.

Fonts may draw the forms alike or with different regional details, so appearance cannot establish code-point identity. Unicode's NFKC and NFKD normalization forms apply compatibility decomposition: they map 暴 to 暴. If exact code-point fidelity matters, such as when matching legacy data, keep FA06; ordinary prose normally uses 暴.