U+798A "禊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

禊

U+798A "禊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese character that primarily refers to a purification ritual or festival, often associated with exorcising evil spirits and washing away impurities, particularly in the context of ancient East Asian customs like the spring purification rite held by rivers. In Chinese, it is pronounced "xì" and appears in classical texts describing the "Spring Purification Festival" (禊祭), while in Japanese, it is used in terms like "mizugori" (water purification) and appears in the name of the famous Shinto shrine "Kamigamo Jinja" (上賀茂神社) related to such rituals. This logograph combines the semantic radical "礻" (spirit, worship) with the phonetic component "契," underscoring its connection to spiritual cleansing and ceremonial practice.

General Properties

Code Point	U+798A
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	禊
HTML Hex Encoding	禊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA6 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x798A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000798A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u798a

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	E2F9
kCCCII	22674B
kCNS1986	2-4C41
kCNS1992	2-4C41
kCangjie	IFQHK
kCantonese	hai6
kCihaiT	984.304
kDaeJaweon	1265.140
kDefinition	semi-annual ceremony of purification
kEACC	22674B
kFanqie	胡計
kFourCornerCode	3723.4
kGB0	7689
kGB1	7689
kHangul	계:1N
kHanYu	42404.010
kHanyuPinyin	42404.010:xì
kIICore	BGJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1265.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42404.010
kIRGKangXi	0844.230
kIRG_GSource	G0-6C79
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E2F9
kIRG_JSource	J0-6334
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6161
kIRG_KSource	K1-5861
kIRG_TSource	T2-4C41
kJapanese	ケイゲイカツケチはらうみそぎ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:5601
kJapaneseKun	MISOGI HARAU
kJapaneseOn	KEI
kJis0	6720
kKangXi	0844.230
kKarlgren	335
kKorean	KYEY
kMainlandTelegraph	4397
kMandarin	xì
kMatthews	2457
kMojiJoho	MJ018887 MJ018887:E0101 MJ018888:E0102 MJ018886:E0103 MJ018885:E0104 MJ018889:E0105
kMorohashi	24760:E0103
kNelson	3253
kPhonetic	564
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5895+113.5.9
kRSUnicode	113.9
kSBGY	373.03
kSMSZD2003Index	481.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	xì粵hai6
kTaiwanTelegraph	4397
kTGHZ2013	395.140:xì
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kXerox	275:052
kXHC1983	1235.080:xì