U+7956 "祖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+7956 "祖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "ancestor" or "forefather," and it also conveys the concept of "founder" or "origin" of a family, clan, or tradition. This character is composed of the radical "示" which relates to spirits or offerings, and the phonetic component "且," which originally depicted a tablet for ancestral worship. In common usage, "祖" appears in words such as "祖先" meaning ancestors, "祖国" meaning motherland or fatherland, and "祖宗" referring to ancestors or forebears collectively. It is a fundamental character in Chinese culture, often associated with reverence for lineage and heritage, and it is also used in Japanese and Korean contexts with similar meanings.
General Properties
Code Point
U+7956
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
祖
HTML Hex Encoding
祖
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE7 0xA5 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0x7956
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00007956
C/C++/Java Escape
\u7956
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
AFAA
kCCCII
214E6A
kCNS1986
1-572D
kCNS1992
1-572D
kCangjie
IFBM
kCantonese
zou2
kCowles
4587
kDaeJaweon
1260.010
kDefinition
ancestor, forefather; grandfather
kEACC
214E6A
kFanqie
則古
kFenn
623C
kFennIndex
557.05
kFourCornerCode
3721.0
kGB0
5570
kGB1
5570
kGSR
0046b'
kHangul
조:0E
kHanYu
42391.040
kHanyuPinlu
zǔ(366)
kHanyuPinyin
42391.040:zǔ,jiē
kHKGlyph
2868
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
42391.040
kIRG_GSource
G0-5766
kIRG_HSource
HB1-AFAA
kIRG_JSource
J0-4144
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E9AA
kIRG_KSource
K0-7053
kIRG_TSource
T1-572D
kIRG_VSource
V2-8E3E
kJapanese
ソ シャ ショ はじめ
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:1710
kJapaneseKun
JIJI HAJIME
kJapaneseOn
SO
kJis0
3336
kKangXi
0841.180
kKorean
CO
kLau
1529
kMainlandTelegraph
4371
kMandarin
zǔ
kMatthews
6815
kMeyerWempe
3406
kMojiJoho
MJ018794 MJ030278:FE00 MJ018794:E0102 MJ030278:E0103 MJ059956:E0104
kMorohashi
24664' 24664:FE00 24664':E0102 24664:E0103
kNelson
3243
kPhonetic
97
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2758+113.4.5
kRSUnicode
113.5
kSBGY
266.27
kSMSZD2003Index
479.10
kSMSZD2003Readings
zǔ粵zou2
kTaiwanTelegraph
4371
kTang
*tzǒ
kTGHZ2013
495.050:zǔ
kTotalStrokes
10
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
245:043
kXHC1983
1545.020:zǔ
kJapaneseOldVariant
U+FA50