U+91CB "釋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
釋
U+91CB "釋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily conveys the meanings of "to release," "to explain," or "to set free." It is composed of the radical 采 (which relates to distinguishing or separating) and the phonetic component 睪, and it appears in classical texts such as the Analects of Confucius, where it can denote the act of untying or unfastening. In Buddhism, this character is notably used to represent "Shakyamuni" (the historical Buddha) as part of his name, 釋迦牟尼, and it also appears in modern contexts related to legal or formal terms like "釋放" meaning "release" or "釋義" meaning "exegesis."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+91CB |
| 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 | 釋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 釋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0x87 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x91CB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000091CB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u91cb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C4C0 |
| kCCCII | 215D38 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7A4B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7A4B |
| kCangjie | HDWLJ |
| kCantonese | sik1 |
| kCihaiT | 1357.102 |
| kCowles | 3922 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1791.040 |
| kDefinition | interpret, elucidate; release |
| kEACC | 215D38 |
| kFanqie | 施隻 |
| kFenn | 160D |
| kFennIndex | 456.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2694.1 |
| kGB1 | 4245 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0790l |
| kHangul | 석:0E |
| kHanYu | 63900.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shì(123) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63900.060:shì,yì |
| kHKGlyph | 4222 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1791.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63900.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1290.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4A4D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C4C0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6E59 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E2AE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6037 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7A4B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6A29 |
| kJapanese | セキ シャク ヤク エキ とく |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOKU SUTERU YURUSU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHAKU SEKI EKI |
| kJis0 | 7857 |
| kKangXi | 1290.170 |
| kKarlgren | 202 |
| kKorean | SEK |
| kLau | 2784 |
| kMandarin | shì |
| kMatthews | 5824 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2703 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ026590 MJ026590:E0101 MJ026591:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 40129 40129:E0101 |
| kNelson | 4812 |
| kPhonetic | 1560 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6966+165.7.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 165.13 |
| kSBGY | 517.36 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "释" U+91CA CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 714.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shì粵sik1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6847 |
| kTang | shiɛk |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thích |
| kXerox | 250:365 |
| kXHC1983 | 1053.011:shì |