U+7960 "祠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

祠

U+7960 "祠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means a shrine, temple, or memorial hall, often dedicated to ancestors or deities, and is used in East Asian cultures for ritual worship and commemoration. In classical Chinese texts, it appears in compound words like 祠堂 (citang, meaning ancestral hall) or 祠庙 (cimiao, meaning temple), reflecting its role in religious and familial traditions. The character itself is composed of the semantic radical 礻 (示, associated with spirits or religious rites) on the left, and the phonetic component 司 (si) on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation. This ideograph is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, representing a common and culturally significant character in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7960
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	祠
HTML Hex Encoding	祠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA5 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7960
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007960
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7960

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	AFA8
kCCCII	214E68
kCNS1986	1-572B
kCNS1992	1-572B
kCangjie	IFSMR
kCantonese	ci4
kCihaiT	981.401
kDaeJaweon	1262.040
kDefinition	ancestral temple; offer sacrifice
kEACC	214E68
kFanqie	似兹
kFenn	701H
kFennIndex	588.01
kFourCornerCode	3722.0
kGB0	7684
kGB1	7684
kGSR	0972h
kHangul	사:0N
kHanYu	42395.010
kHanyuPinyin	42395.010:cí,sì
kHKGlyph	2865
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1262.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42395.010
kIRGKangXi	0842.060
kIRG_GSource	G0-6C74
kIRG_HSource	HB1-AFA8
kIRG_JSource	J0-632C
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E0EB
kIRG_KSource	K0-5E66
kIRG_TSource	T1-572B
kIRG_VSource	V1-6122
kJapanese	シジほこらまつる
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:1713
kJapaneseKun	HOKORA MATSURU
kJapaneseOn	SHI
kJis0	6712
kKangXi	0842.060
kKorean	SA
kLau	295
kMainlandTelegraph	4379
kMandarin	cí
kMatthews	6970
kMeyerWempe	3558a
kMojiJoho	MJ018814 MJ018814:E0101 MJ018813:E0102
kMorohashi	24676 24676:E0101
kNelson	3241
kPhonetic	1169
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5887+113.5.5
kRSUnicode	113.5
kSBGY	061.45
kSMSZD2003Index	480.02
kSMSZD2003Readings	cí粵ci4
kTaiwanTelegraph	4379
kTang	*ziə
kTGHZ2013	055.060:cí
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	từ
kXerox	260:314
kXHC1983	0175.010:cí