U+5E03 "布" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

布

U+5E03 "布" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "cloth" or "fabric," but it also carries a range of related meanings including "to spread," "to declare," "to arrange," or "to publish," depending on context. In its most basic sense, it denotes a piece of woven material, such as cotton or silk, used for clothing or other textiles. Beyond its literal meaning, the character is commonly used in compound words and phrases, such as "公布" (gōngbù) meaning "to announce" and "分布" (fēnbù) meaning "distribution" or "to be scattered." Its structure combines the radical "巾" (jīn), which represents a piece of cloth or turban, with the phonetic component "𠂉", reflecting both its material association and its pronunciation in Mandarin as "bù." As a fundamental character in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) writing system, it appears in everyday vocabulary across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5E03
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	布
HTML Hex Encoding	布
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0xB8 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5E03
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005E03
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5e03

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	A5AC
kCCCII	213C45
kCNS1986	1-464C
kCNS1992	1-464C
kCangjie	KLB
kCantonese	bou3
kCihaiT	471.201
kCowles	3336
kDaeJaweon	0633.020
kDefinition	cotton cloth, textiles, linen
kEACC	273138
kFanqie	愽故
kFenn	171B
kFennIndex	424.02
kFourCornerCode	4022.7
kGB0	1828
kGB1	1828
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0102j
kHangul	포:0E
kHanYu	10728.050
kHanyuPinlu	bù(744)
kHanyuPinyin	10728.050:bù
kHKGlyph	1148
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0633.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10728.050
kIRGKangXi	0328.060
kIRG_GSource	G0-323C
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A5AC
kIRG_JSource	J0-495B
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F1C0
kIRG_KSource	K0-7856
kIRG_TSource	T1-464C
kIRG_VSource	V1-5367
kJapanese	フホぬのしく
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:218
kJapaneseKun	NUNO SHIKU
kJapaneseOn	FU
kJis0	4159
kKangXi	0328.060
kKarlgren	42
kKorean	PHO
kLau	121
kMainlandTelegraph	1580
kMandarin	bù
kMatthews	5364
kMeyerWempe	2412
kMojiJoho	MJ010808
kMorohashi	08778
kNelson	1468
kPhonetic	393 1069
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3533+50.3.2
kRSUnicode	50.2
kSBGY	369.36
kSMSZD2003Index	192.08
kSMSZD2003Readings	bù粵bou3
kTaiwanTelegraph	1580
kTang	*bò
kTGHZ2013	029.040:bù
kTotalStrokes	5
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	bố
kXerox	242:304
kXHC1983	0095.030:bù