U+5831 "報" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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.