U+2FF5 "" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+2FF5 "" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Above is a specialized glyph used in the Unicode Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS) system to describe the layout of Chinese characters, specifically indicating that a component or radical on the inside is enclosed or surrounded from above by a component positioned at the top. This character is not meant to be displayed as a stand-alone symbol in normal text but serves as a structural marker in plain text descriptions of complex CJK ideographs, where it helps to convey the spatial relationship between parts. For example, it can represent the structure of a character like 同, where an enclosing top element covers an internal component. Its purpose is to facilitate the digital representation and reconstruction of rare or non-standard characters without the need for precomposed fonts or images.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2FF5
Name
Ideographic Description Character Surround from Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
⿵
HTML Hex Encoding
⿵
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xBF 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2FF5
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002FF5
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2ff5