U+7996 "禖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
禖
U+7996 "禖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that historically refers to a type of ritual or sacrifice, specifically the ceremony performed to pray for offspring or a child, often associated with ancient fertility rites and the worship of the matchmaker deity. This character combines the radical for "spirit" or "sacrificial rites" with the phonetic component "某," and it appears in classical texts such as the "Rites of Zhou" (Zhouli), where it denotes a sacred practice conducted by a specific official to ensure the continuity of family lineage. In modern usage, it is rare and primarily encountered in historical or literary contexts, preserving its connection to ancient customs surrounding marriage and procreation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7996 |
| 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 | 禖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 禖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA6 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7996 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007996 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7996 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E2FB |
| kCCCII | 226750 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4C43 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4C43 |
| kCangjie | IFTMD |
| kCantonese | mui4 |
| kCihaiT | 984.303 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1266.090 |
| kDefinition | sacrifice |
| kEACC | 226750 |
| kFanqie | 莫杯 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3429.4 |
| kGB3 | 5519 |
| kGSR | 0948e |
| kHanYu | 42404.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42404.020:méi |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1266.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42404.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0845.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-5733 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E2FB |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-7269 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6162 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-4E29 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4C43 |
| kJapanese | バイ メ |
| kJIS0213 | 2,82,73 |
| kJapaneseOn | BAI MAI |
| kJis1 | 4871 |
| kKangXi | 0845.110 |
| kMandarin | méi |
| kMatthews | 4399 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1895a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018915 MJ018915:E0101 MJ018914:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 24776 24776:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 886 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14911+113.5.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 113.9 |
| kSBGY | 096.48 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4399 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 305:126 |
| kXHC1983 | 0771.030:méi |