U+5831 "報" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5831 "報" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that conveys meanings related to reporting, announcing, or repaying, and it is also used in Japanese and Korean contexts. Its structure combines the radical for "hand" or "action" with a phonetic component, reflecting its historical usage in official communications and formal declarations. In modern usage, it appears in terms such as "newspaper" (報紙 in Chinese, 新聞報 in Korean) and "report" (報告 in both Chinese and Japanese), and it carries cultural significance in contexts of gratitude or retaliation, as in "repayment" (報恩) or "revenge" (報復). This character is encoded as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a shared heritage across East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+5831
Version Added 1.1
Name CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 報
HTML Hex Encoding 報
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0xA0 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5831
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005831
C/C++/Java Escape \u5831

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive B3F8
kCCCII 213844
kCNS1986 1-5E5E
kCNS1992 1-5E5E
kCangjie GJSLE
kCantonese bou3
kCihaiT 324.401
kCowles 3337
kDaeJaweon 0471.130
kDefinition report, tell, announce
kEACC 213844
kFanqie 博耗
kFenn 159A
kFennIndex 387.05
kFourCornerCode 4744.7
kGB1 1708
kGradeLevel 2
kGSR 1058a
kHangul 보:0E
kHanYu 10466.040
kHanyuPinlu bào(1019)
kHanyuPinyin 10466.040:bào,fù
kHKGlyph 0777
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0471.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10466.040
kIRGKangXi 0234.050
kIRG_GSource G1-3128
kIRG_HSource HB1-B3F8
kIRG_JSource J0-4A73
kIRG_KPSource KP0-DEAD
kIRG_KSource K0-5C43
kIRG_TSource T1-5E5E
kIRG_VSource V1-5079
kJapanese ホウ フ むくいる むくい
kJoyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kJapaneseKun SHIRASERU MUKUIRU
kJapaneseOn HOU
kJis0 4283
kKangXi 0234.050
kKorean PO PWU
kLau 120
kMandarin bào
kMatthews 4955
kMeyerWempe 2413
kMojiJoho MJ009169 MJ009169:E0101 MJ009170:E0102
kMorohashi 05275 05275:E0101 05383:E0102
kNelson 1114
kPhonetic 401
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+3651+32.3.9
kRSUnicode 32.9
kSBGY 418.26
kSemanticVariant U+62A5<kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant "报" U+62A5 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 136.06
kSMSZD2003Readings bào粵bou3
kTaiwanTelegraph 1032
kTang *bɑ̀u
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kVietnamese báo
kXerox 242:065
kXHC1983 0040.071:bào