U+2FF5 "⿵" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+2FF5 "⿵" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Above is a specialized glyph used in the Unicode Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS) system to describe the layout of Chinese characters, specifically indicating that a component or radical on the inside is enclosed or surrounded from above by a component positioned at the top. This character is not meant to be displayed as a stand-alone symbol in normal text but serves as a structural marker in plain text descriptions of complex CJK ideographs, where it helps to convey the spatial relationship between parts. For example, it can represent the structure of a character like 同, where an enclosing top element covers an internal component. Its purpose is to facilitate the digital representation and reconstruction of rare or non-standard characters without the need for precomposed fonts or images.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
⿵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
⿵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0xBF 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x2FF5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00002FF5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u2ff5 |
Unicode Properties