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Glyph for U+7956
Source: Noto CJK

U+7956 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​7956

U+7956 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as ancestor, forefather; grandfather. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is zǔ.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+7956 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with 2 other glyphs.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 31062
UTF-8 E7 A5 96
UTF-16 79 56
UTF-32 00 00 79 56
URL-Quoted %E7%A5%96
HTML hex reference 祖
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 祖
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) F0 D3
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) C1 C4
Pīnyīn zǔ

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7956
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Han
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✔
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✔
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+7956 CJK Unified Ideograph-7956
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) AFAA
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 214E6A
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 1-572D
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 1-572D
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) IFBM
kCantonese (kCantonese) zou2
kCowles (kCowles) 4587
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1260.010
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) ancestor, forefather; grandfather
kEACC (kEACC) 214E6A
kFenn (kFenn) 623C
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 557.05
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 3721.0
kFrequency (kFrequency) 4
kGB0 (kGB0) 5570
kGB1 (kGB1) 5570
kGSR (kGSR) 0046b'
kHKGlyph (kHKGlyph) 2868
kHanYu (kHanYu) 42391.040
kHangul (kHangul) 조:0E
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) zǔ(366)
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 42391.040:zǔ,jiē
kIICore (kIICore) AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1260.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 42391.040
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0841.180
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-5766
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB1-AFAA
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-4144
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-E9AA
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-7053
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T1-572D
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V2-8E3E
kJapanese (kJapanese) ソ シャ ショ はじめ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) JIJI HAJIME
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SO
kJis0 (kJis0) 3336
kJoyoKanji (kJoyoKanji) 2010
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0841.180
kKorean (kKorean) CO
kKoreanEducationHanja (kKoreanEducationHanja) 2007
kLau (kLau) 1529
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 4371
kMandarin (kMandarin) zǔ
kMatthews (kMatthews) 6815
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 3406
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ018794 MJ030278:FE00 MJ018794:E0102 MJ030278:E0103 MJ059956:E0104
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 24664' 24664:FE00 24664':E0102 24664:E0103
kNelson (kNelson) 3243
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 97
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+2758+113.4.5
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 113.5
kSBGY (kSBGY) 266.27
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 479.10
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) zǔ粵zou2
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:1710
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 495.050:zǔ
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 4371
kTang (kTang) *tzǒ
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 9
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GHJKMPT
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1545.020:zǔ
Xerox Code (kXerox) 245:043