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