What 奔 means
No. It is a compatibility form of 奔, with the same lexical meaning. Chinese sources use 奔 for running fast, fleeing, or heading toward something; Japanese sources also show it in words such as 奔走 (running about for a cause) and 奔放 (unrestrained).
An early form of 奔 appears in Western Zhou bronze inscriptions. It has been interpreted as a running person with three footprints; later seal script, an older writing style, shows the character’s development.
Unicode includes 奔 for round-trip conversion with KPS 10721-2000. It preserves a legacy encoded form; it does not create a new word.
When should I keep 奔?
Only when legacy text or exact glyph identity requires it. Use 奔 for ordinary writing. Keep 奔 when converting a legacy document or preserving the original code-point identity; it is not an alternate spelling.
Normalization can turn 奔 into 奔. The standardized variation sequence 奔︀ (U5954 followed by UFE00) provides a normalization-stable way to request the glyph distinction; display still depends on font support.
This signals legacy-text handling or glyph preservation, not a new everyday spelling.
If you mean “run,” use 奔; 奔 may normalize to it or look identical in a font.
Who writes 奔
Loading…
Don't confuse it with
1
Questions people ask
2Can normalization change 奔?
Yes. Normalization can map this character to 奔 and remove the compatibility distinction; use the standardized variation sequence based on 奔 when that glyph distinction must remain.
Why can 奔 and 奔 look the same in one font?
They can. A font chooses how to draw each encoded form, so visual similarity does not change their encoded relationship.
More like this
8
How to type or find 奔
- Search it as
- 奔 meaning · 奔 vs 奔 · 奔 compatibility form · FA7F character · U+FA7F · KPS 10721-2000 · type 奔
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
奔\FA7FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.