U+91C8 "釈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+91C8 "釈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily carries the meanings of "interpretation," "explanation," or "release," and is a simplified form of the traditional character "釋." This character is most commonly used in Japanese, where it is a standard Jōyō kanji and appears in compounds such as 解釈 (kaishaku, meaning "interpretation") and 釈放 (shakuhō, meaning "release"). Historically, the character's composition includes elements related to a field of grain and a radical associated with a net or separation, reflecting its original semantic connections to loosening or freeing something. In the Global CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideograph system, it is encoded for consistent representation across digital platforms dealing with these languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+91C8
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 釈
HTML Hex Encoding 釈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x87 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0x91C8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000091C8
C/C++/Java Escape \u91c8

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

kCangjie HDSO
kCantonese sik1
kDefinition interpret, elucidate; release
kEACC 4B5D38
kFourCornerCode 2798.7
kHanYu 63899.031
kIICore AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63899.031
kIRGKangXi 1290.091
kIRG_GSource GE-502C
kIRG_JSource J0-3C61
kIRG_KPSource KP1-7FB2
kIRG_KSource K2-6757
kJapanese シャク セキ エキ ヤク すてる とく とける ゆるす
kJoyoKanji 2010
kJapaneseKun TOKU SUTERU YURUSU
kJapaneseOn SHAKU EKI
kJis0 2865
kKangXi 1290.091
kKorean SEK
kMandarin shì
kMojiJoho MJ026588 MJ026588:E0101 MJ058893:E0102
kMorohashi 40120' 40120':E0101 40120:E0102
kNelson 4809 4812
kPhonetic 1046*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2317+165.7.4
kRSUnicode 165.4
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 J