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
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
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 |