U+2FF9 "" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Upper Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+2FF9 "" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Upper Right is a special symbol used in the Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS) system to denote a specific structural relationship within a Chinese character, where a component or radical encloses the left and bottom sides of the inner element, originating from the upper right corner. Unlike regular Chinese characters, this code point is not meant for display in text but serves as a precise structural marker for describing the composition of non standard or complex CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs. It helps lexicographers, font designers, and linguists represent how a character is built from simpler parts, such as when a character like the traditional form of "kǔn" (困) encloses an inner component from the upper right, though it is primarily used in dictionaries and encoding standards rather than in everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2FF9
Name
Ideographic Description Character Surround from Upper Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
⿹
HTML Hex Encoding
⿹
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xBF 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2FF9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002FF9
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2ff9