CJK Compatibility Ideograph FA28

﨨 is a distinct character associated with 鋒.

The associated character 鋒 appears in the Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, in the older form 鏠, glossed as a weapon’s point. Later dictionaries also use 鋒 for a blade or tool edge, a vanguard, a sharpness in speech, and the leading edge of a weather front. That history belongs to 鋒; it does not by itself show that 﨨 was the ancient form.

FA28 entered Unicode through IBM’s Japanese extension for characters outside the usual JIS character set, a Japanese standard. This helped preserve older text when it was converted to and from IBM’s encoding. Despite its place in the compatibility-ideograph block, Unicode treats FA28 as a separate ideograph with no normalization rule mapping it to 鋒, so normalization leaves 﨨 distinct.

When does the exact form matter?

Keep it exact in names and records; confirm the bearer’s reading.

As of 2026-09-14, Taiwan’s CNS11643 character record lists 﨨 for personal names with the Mandarin pinyin reading xìng (roughly “shing,” with a falling tone); Japanese references list コウ, pronounced roughly “koh” with a long o. These are readings in different languages, not interchangeable. Confirm the bearer’s reading before writing a name.

In ordinary Chinese prose about a weapon point, blade edge, or vanguard, 鋒 is the standard form. The FA28 character matters when a name or record uses that exact glyph.