U+7960 "祠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+7960 "祠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means a shrine, temple, or memorial hall, often dedicated to ancestors or deities, and is used in East Asian cultures for ritual worship and commemoration. In classical Chinese texts, it appears in compound words like 祠堂 (citang, meaning ancestral hall) or 祠庙 (cimiao, meaning temple), reflecting its role in religious and familial traditions. The character itself is composed of the semantic radical 礻 (示, associated with spirits or religious rites) on the left, and the phonetic component 司 (si) on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation. This ideograph is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, representing a common and culturally significant character in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean contexts.