U+7946 "祆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

祆

U+7946 "祆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that specifically refers to the veneration of the Zoroastrian deity Ahura Mazda, often associated with the ancient religion of Zoroastrianism that originated in Persia. In classical Chinese texts, it is used to denote the worship of celestial beings or spirits, particularly in the context of the "Heavenly God" revered by the Sogdians and other Central Asian peoples who practiced Zoroastrianism. The character is composed of the radical for "spirit" or "deity" ("礻") on the left, indicating its religious connotation, and the phonetic component "天" (tian, meaning "heaven" or "sky") on the right. Historically, "祆" appears in Chinese historical records such as the "Shiji" and later texts to describe the foreign cults that entered China via the Silk Road, distinguishing it from native Chinese religious terms. Today, it remains a specialized character used in academic studies of ancient Chinese relations with Central Asian religions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7946
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	祆
HTML Hex Encoding	祆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA5 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7946
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007946
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7946

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	ACE6
kCNS1986	1-5269
kCNS1992	1-5269
kCangjie	IFMK
kCantonese	hin1
kCihaiT	977.101
kDaeJaweon	1258.090
kDefinition	Ormazda, god of the Zoroastrians; extended to god of the Manicheans
kEACC	226675
kFanqie	呼煙
kFourCornerCode	3223.4
kGB0	7676
kGB1	7676
kGSR	1141g
kHangul	천:1N
kHanYu	42388.100
kHanyuPinyin	42388.100:xiān
kHKGlyph	2860
kIICore	AGT
kIRGDaeJaweon	1258.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42388.100
kIRGKangXi	0840.070
kIRG_GSource	G0-6C6C
kIRG_HSource	HB1-ACE6
kIRG_JSource	J13-7936
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6120
kIRG_KSource	K1-6F37
kIRG_TSource	T1-5269
kJapanese	ケンテン
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:4047
kJIS0213	1,89,22
kJapaneseOn	KEN TEN
kJis1	4848
kKangXi	0840.070
kKorean	CHEN
kMainlandTelegraph	4360
kMandarin	xiān
kMatthews	2657
kMojiJoho	MJ018769 MJ018769:E0101 MJ018768:E0102
kMorohashi	24638 24638:E0101
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17015+113.5.4
kRSUnicode	113.4
kSBGY	136.40
kSMSZD2003Index	478.13
kSMSZD2003Readings	xiān粵hin1
kTGHZ2013	397.080:xiān
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXHC1983	1244.020:xiān