U+2FF0 "" Ideographic Description Character Left to Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+2FF0 "" Ideographic Description Character Left to Right is a special symbol used in the Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS) standard to describe the structure of Chinese characters (hanzi/kanji/hanja) by indicating that the two components on either side of it are arranged horizontally from left to right. This character itself is not a written character in any language, but rather a metacharacter for describing how complex ideographs are composed from simpler parts, such as in the character 休 which can be described as ⿰亻木. It is primarily used in digital text processing, font design, and dictionary entries to unambiguously represent the layout of components without needing to render the actual ideograph.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
⿰
HTML Hex Encoding
⿰
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xBF 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2FF0
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002FF0
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2ff0