U+2FFC "⿼" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Right Unicode Character

U+2FFC "⿼" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Right is a specialized symbol used in the Unicode Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS) system to graphically describe the structure of a complex Chinese character (Hanzi or Kanji) by indicating that the rightmost component of the character surrounds a component on its left side. This character does not represent a real written ideograph itself but instead functions as a syntactic operator in plain text, allowing lexicographers and linguists to express how a compound ideograph is constructed from subcomponents, specifically when the right part of the character encloses the left part. It is part of a set of twelve such description characters, which together form a powerful tool for documenting rare, historical, or non-encoded characters without requiring dedicated font support for the actual glyph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2FFC
Version Added	15.1
Name	Ideographic Description Character Surround from 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 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2FFC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002FFC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ffc

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