U+2FFC "" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Right Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+2FFC "" Ideographic Description Character Surround from Right is a specialized symbol used in the Unicode Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS) system to graphically describe the structure of a complex Chinese character (Hanzi or Kanji) by indicating that the rightmost component of the character surrounds a component on its left side. This character does not represent a real written ideograph itself but instead functions as a syntactic operator in plain text, allowing lexicographers and linguists to express how a compound ideograph is constructed from subcomponents, specifically when the right part of the character encloses the left part. It is part of a set of twelve such description characters, which together form a powerful tool for documenting rare, historical, or non-encoded characters without requiring dedicated font support for the actual glyph.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
⿼
HTML Hex Encoding
⿼
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0xBF 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2FFC
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002FFC
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2ffc