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
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