U+2FF9 "⿹" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Upper Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2FF9 "⿹" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Upper Right is a special symbol used in the Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS) system to denote a specific structural relationship within a Chinese character, where a component or radical encloses the left and bottom sides of the inner element, originating from the upper right corner. Unlike regular Chinese characters, this code point is not meant for display in text but serves as a precise structural marker for describing the composition of non standard or complex CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs. It helps lexicographers, font designers, and linguists represent how a character is built from simpler parts, such as when a character like the traditional form of "kǔn" (困) encloses an inner component from the upper right, though it is primarily used in dictionaries and encoding standards rather than in everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+2FF9
Version Added 3.0
Name Ideographic Description Character Surround from Upper 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 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2FF9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002FF9
C/C++/Java Escape \u2ff9

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