U+7942 "祂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7942 "祂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used specifically as a third-person singular pronoun for deities and the divine, particularly in religious contexts such as Christianity and Confucianism. It is composed of the radical 礻 (spirit or worship) on the left, indicating its spiritual significance, and the phonetic component 也 on the right. In contrast to the more common pronoun 他 (tā) for humans or males, 祂 is reserved exclusively for referring to God, gods, or other sacred beings, and it appears frequently in Chinese translations of the Bible and other religious texts to show reverence and distinction.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7942
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	祂
HTML Hex Encoding	祂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA5 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7942
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007942
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7942

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

kBigFive	CDA2
kCCCII	226667
kCNS1986	2-2842
kCNS1992	2-2842
kCangjie	IFPD
kCantonese	taa1
kDefinition	he (honorific form, generally used for the Abrahamic God)
kEACC	226667
kFourCornerCode	3421.2
kHanYu	42387.011
kIICore	BTH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42387.011
kIRGKangXi	0840.031
kIRG_GSource	GE-445D
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CDA2
kIRG_TSource	T2-2842
kKangXi	0840.031
kMandarin	tā
kPhonetic	1471
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19616+113.5.3
kRSUnicode	113.3
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	317:132