U+7943 "祃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
祃
U+7943 "祃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of sacrifice or offering in ancient rituals, particularly associated with military campaigns or the act of seeking divine blessing for a battle. It falls within the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is composed of the radical "示" (meaning spirit or deity) combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its usage in classical texts where it denotes a ceremonial offering made to the gods before launching a war. While largely archaic in modern Chinese, the character appears in historical records and dictionaries, emphasizing its role in traditional religious and martial practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7943 |
| 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 | 祃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 祃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA5 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7943 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007943 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7943 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | IFNVM |
| kCantonese | maa6 |
| kDefinition | a sacrifice at the beginning of a military campaign |
| kFourCornerCode | 3722.7 |
| kGB8 | 9323 |
| kHanYu | 42387.012 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42387.011 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0840.031 |
| kIRG_GSource | G8-7D37 |
| kTGH | 2013:6624 |
| kKangXi | 0840.031 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4401 |
| kMandarin | mà |
| kPhonetic | 863* |
| kRSUnicode | 113.3 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 478.11 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 241.030:mà |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "禡" U+79A1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0758.040:mà |