U+2FF2 "⿲" Ideographic Description Character Left to Middle and Right Unicode Character

U+2FF2 "⿲" Ideographic Description Character Left to Middle and Right is a structural symbol used primarily in Chinese character dictionaries and digital text to denote a specific layout of components within a complex ideograph. It represents a trigraphic structure where a left element, a middle element, and a right element are arranged horizontally in sequence, describing characters like the Chinese character for "street" (行) which is formed from left, middle, and right parts. This character is part of the Ideographic Description Characters block, which provides a system for describing the composition of Han characters without needing a specific character encoding for every possible variant.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2FF2
Version Added	3.0
Name	Ideographic Description Character Left to Middle and 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 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2FF2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002FF2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ff2

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 Trinary Operator	Yes