U+7998 "禘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7998 "禘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to an ancient imperial ancestral sacrifice or offering ceremony, specifically the grand ritual performed by the Son of Heaven (the emperor) to worship the ancestors of the ruling house or, in some interpretations, the supreme deity. This character, composed of the radical for "spirit" or "sacrificial altar" (礻) and the phonetic component "帝" meaning "emperor," thus semantically links divine worship to the highest authority. In classical Chinese texts, such as the "Book of Rites" and the "Analects," the "禘" sacrifice is discussed as a profound and complex ritual, symbolizing the legitimacy of dynastic rule and the cosmological order. While rarely used in modern everyday language, it retains significance in historical and theological contexts, representing a key aspect of early Chinese religious and political thought concerning the sacred duties of monarchy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7998
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	禘
HTML Hex Encoding	禘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xA6 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7998
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007998
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7998

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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kCangjie	IFYBB
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kTGH	2013:7606
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kJapaneseKun	MATSURI
kJapaneseOn	TEI DAI
kJis1	4872
kKangXi	0845.130
kMainlandTelegraph	4396
kMandarin	dì
kMatthews	6206
kMeyerWempe	2977c
kMojiJoho	MJ018919 MJ018919:E0101 MJ018918:E0102 MJ018920:E0103
kMorohashi	24778 24778:E0101
kPhonetic	1308
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14912+113.5.9
kRSUnicode	113.9
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kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	305:127
kXHC1983	0233.060:dì