U+2FFD "⿽" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Lower Right Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+2FFD "⿽" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Lower Right is a structural marker used in the Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS) system to help describe complex Chinese characters and other CJK ideographs in a machine readable way. Specifically, it indicates that the character being described is formed by an element or enclosure that partially surrounds its inner component from the lower right corner, such as in characters where a lower right radical or border wraps around a core element. This symbol itself is not a character used in ordinary text but serves as a technical tool for lexicography, font development, and digital encoding of ideographs that cannot be directly represented in standard character sets. By combining U+2FFD with other IDS characters and basic ideographs, one can precisely convey the spatial arrangement of a character’s components without relying on images or complex descriptions.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
⿽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
⿽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0xBF 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x2FFD |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00002FFD |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u2ffd |
Unicode Properties