U+7969 "祩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

祩

U+7969 "祩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character whose primary meaning relates to spiritual or religious practices, specifically denoting a type of prayer or incantation used in Daoist or folk rituals to drive away evil spirits or curse malevolent forces. It is composed of the radical 礻, which signifies matters associated with gods, spirits, or worship, and the phonetic component 朱, which provides a clue to its pronunciation. This character is relatively rare in modern standard Chinese, appearing more frequently in classical texts, religious manuscripts, or historical contexts involving exorcism and supernatural beliefs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7969
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	祩
HTML Hex Encoding	祩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA5 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7969
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007969
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7969

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

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kIRG_GSource	G5-5756
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D6BE
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kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22109+113.5.6
kRSUnicode	113.6
kSBGY	364.42
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HMT