U+7956 "祖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
祖
U+7956 "祖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "ancestor" or "forefather," and it also conveys the concept of "founder" or "origin" of a family, clan, or tradition. This character is composed of the radical "示" which relates to spirits or offerings, and the phonetic component "且," which originally depicted a tablet for ancestral worship. In common usage, "祖" appears in words such as "祖先" meaning ancestors, "祖国" meaning motherland or fatherland, and "祖宗" referring to ancestors or forebears collectively. It is a fundamental character in Chinese culture, often associated with reverence for lineage and heritage, and it is also used in Japanese and Korean contexts with similar meanings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7956 |
| 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 | 祖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 祖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA5 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7956 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007956 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7956 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AFAA |
| kCCCII | 214E6A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-572D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-572D |
| kCangjie | IFBM |
| kCantonese | zou2 |
| kCowles | 4587 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1260.010 |
| kDefinition | ancestor, forefather; grandfather |
| kEACC | 214E6A |
| kFanqie | 則古 |
| kFenn | 623C |
| kFennIndex | 557.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3721.0 |
| kGB0 | 5570 |
| kGB1 | 5570 |
| kGSR | 0046b' |
| kHangul | 조:0E |
| kHanYu | 42391.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zǔ(366) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42391.040:zǔ,jiē |
| kHKGlyph | 2868 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1260.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42391.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0841.180 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5766 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AFAA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4144 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E9AA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7053 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-572D |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8E3E |
| kJapanese | ソ シャ ショ はじめ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1710 |
| kJapaneseKun | JIJI HAJIME |
| kJapaneseOn | SO |
| kJis0 | 3336 |
| kKangXi | 0841.180 |
| kKorean | CO |
| kLau | 1529 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4371 |
| kMandarin | zǔ |
| kMatthews | 6815 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3406 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018794 MJ030278:FE00 MJ018794:E0102 MJ030278:E0103 MJ059956:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 24664' 24664:FE00 24664':E0102 24664:E0103 |
| kNelson | 3243 |
| kPhonetic | 97 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2758+113.4.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 113.5 |
| kSBGY | 266.27 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 479.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zǔ粵zou2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4371 |
| kTang | *tzǒ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 495.050:zǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 245:043 |
| kXHC1983 | 1545.020:zǔ |