U+7533 "申" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+7533 "申" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with rich historical and linguistic significance, primarily meaning "to explain," "to state," or "to extend," and it is also used as a radical in other characters. It is commonly associated with the ninth Earthly Branch in the Chinese zodiac, representing the Year of the Monkey, and is used in words like "申请" (shēnqǐng, meaning "to apply") and "申明" (shēnmíng, meaning "to declare"). In ancient Chinese, it also carried connotations of stretching or repeating, and it appears in the name of the state of Shen from the Zhou dynasty. This character is encoded as a CJK Unified Ideograph under the Unicode standard, allowing it to be used digitally across various platforms and languages that require Chinese script support.