U+2FF8 "⿸" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Upper Left Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

⿸
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+2FF8 "⿸" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Upper Left is a specialized symbol used within the Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS) to graphically describe the structure of a complex Chinese character (hanzi) or other CJK ideograph. Specifically, this character represents a construction where a component or radical encloses or surrounds another component from the upper left corner, sweeping downward and then rightward to form a partial boundary. This U+2FF8 "⿸" character is not a regular, pronounced ideograph itself but a functional tool for lexicographers, software developers, and linguists to digitally encode and reconstruct how a character is visually assembled, enabling efficient searching and indexing of rare or non encoded glyphs without needing a specific font for every possible combination.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+2FF8
Name
Ideographic Description Character Surround from Upper Left

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
⿸
HTML Hex Encoding
⿸
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xBF 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2FF8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002FF8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2ff8