U+2FF6 "⿶" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+2FF6 "⿶" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Below is a special structural marker used exclusively in the ideographic description sequences (IDS) of Chinese characters and other CJK scripts, such as those in Japanese and Korean. Rather than representing a specific word, meaning, or phonetic sound, this character acts as a graphical operator to describe how two or more subcomponents are arranged within a complex ideograph, specifically indicating that a top enclosure surrounds the lower part, or that the character is built with a lower element enveloped by an upper component. This system allows for the precise representation of character formation without requiring the actual pictographic rendering of rare or historical glyphs. It belongs to a set of twelve such description characters in the Unicode standard, which together provide a vital tool for digital text processing, dictionary indexing, and academic study of East Asian writing systems.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
⿶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
⿶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0xBF 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x2FF6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00002FF6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u2ff6 |
Unicode Properties