U+653E "放" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
放
U+653E "放" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to release," "to put," or "to set free," functioning as a versatile verb in East Asian languages. It is composed of the radical 攵 (攴), which relates to an action or a hand striking, and the component 方 (fāng), which often contributes a phonetic element and can imply direction or square. In Mandarin Chinese, this character is pronounced "fàng" and appears in common words such as "放鬆" (fàngsōng, to relax) and "放心" (fàngxīn, to rest assured), and it plays a significant role in expressing concepts of liberation, placement, or emission in both literal and figurative contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+653E |
| 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 | 放 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 放 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x94 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x653E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000653E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u653e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A9F1 |
| kCCCII | 214240 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4D73 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4D73 |
| kCangjie | YSOK |
| kCantonese | fong3 |
| kCihaiT | 600.303 |
| kCowles | 795 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0818.050 |
| kDefinition | put, release, free, liberate |
| kEACC | 214240 |
| kFanqie | 分网 甫妄 |
| kFenn | 261A |
| kFennIndex | 132.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0824.0 |
| kGB0 | 2337 |
| kGB1 | 2337 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0740i |
| kHangul | 방:0E |
| kHanYu | 21451.110 |
| kHanyuPinlu | fàng(2045) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21451.110:fàng,fǎng,fāng |
| kHKGlyph | 1704 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0818.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21451.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0469.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3745 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A9F1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4A7C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DDB7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5B2F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4D73 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-577A |
| kJapanese | ホウ ボウ はなす はなつ はなれる おく ほしいまま ゆるす |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1223 |
| kJapaneseKun | HANASU HANATSU YURUSU |
| kJapaneseOn | HOU |
| kJis0 | 4292 |
| kKangXi | 0469.030 |
| kKarlgren | 25 |
| kKorean | PANG |
| kLau | 718 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2397 |
| kMandarin | fàng |
| kMatthews | 1807 |
| kMeyerWempe | 534 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ012959 |
| kMorohashi | 13133 |
| kNelson | 2084 |
| kPhonetic | 373 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3660+66.4.4 C+3660+70.4.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 66.4 |
| kSBGY | 313.04 426.48 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 275.06 285.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fàng粵fong3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2397 |
| kTang | *biɑ̀ng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 094.010:fàng |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | phóng |
| kXerox | 242:116 |
| kXHC1983 | 0310.040:fàng |