U+2FF0 "⿰" Ideographic Description Character Left to Right Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⿰
U+2FF0 "⿰" Ideographic Description Character Left to Right is a special symbol used in the Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS) standard to describe the structure of Chinese characters (hanzi/kanji/hanja) by indicating that the two components on either side of it are arranged horizontally from left to right. This character itself is not a written character in any language, but rather a metacharacter for describing how complex ideographs are composed from simpler parts, such as in the character 休 which can be described as ⿰亻木. It is primarily used in digital text processing, font design, and dictionary entries to unambiguously represent the layout of components without needing to render the actual ideograph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2FF0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ideographic Description Character Left to Right |
| Block | Ideographic Description Characters |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⿰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⿰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBF 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2FF0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002FF0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ff0 |
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 | Common |
| Script Extensions | Han Tangut |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |
| IDS Binary Operator | Yes |