Ideographic Description Characters
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Ideographic Description Characters is a Unicode block that provides special symbols used to visually describe the structure and composition of CJK ideographs.
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Unicode block ⓘ |
| blockName | Ideographic Description Characters ⓘ |
| blockSize | 16 code points ⓘ |
| category | Symbol ⓘ |
| codePointRange | 2FF0–2FFF ⓘ |
| contains |
U+2FF0 IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER LEFT TO RIGHT
ⓘ
U+2FF1 IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER ABOVE TO BELOW ⓘ U+2FF2 IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER LEFT TO MIDDLE AND RIGHT ⓘ U+2FF3 IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER ABOVE TO MIDDLE AND BELOW ⓘ U+2FF4 IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER FULL SURROUND ⓘ U+2FF5 IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER SURROUND FROM ABOVE ⓘ U+2FF6 IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER SURROUND FROM BELOW ⓘ U+2FF7 IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER SURROUND FROM LEFT ⓘ U+2FF8 IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER SURROUND FROM UPPER LEFT ⓘ U+2FF9 IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER SURROUND FROM UPPER RIGHT ⓘ U+2FFA IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER SURROUND FROM LOWER LEFT ⓘ U+2FFB IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER OVERLAID ⓘ |
| definedBy | Unicode Consortium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| documentation | Unicode Standard, Chapter on Han and East Asian Scripts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| encodingStandard | Unicode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endCodePoint | U+2FFF ⓘ |
| function | combine with CJK ideographs to form structural descriptions ⓘ |
| generalCategory | Symbol, Other ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | IDC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDirectionality | bidirectional class: Other Neutrals ⓘ |
| introducedInStandard | Unicode Standard Version 3.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notUsedFor |
representing standalone morphemes
ⓘ
representing standalone words ⓘ |
| plane | Basic Multilingual Plane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
CJK Radicals
ⓘ
CJK Unified Ideographs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| script | Common ⓘ |
| stability | code points are stable in Unicode ⓘ |
| startCodePoint | U+2FF0 ⓘ |
| status | current ⓘ |
| supportsProcess |
character decomposition
ⓘ
ideograph analysis ⓘ |
| use |
describe composition of CJK ideographs
ⓘ
describe structure of CJK ideographs ⓘ visual description of Han characters ⓘ |
| usedFor | ideographic description sequences ⓘ |
| usedIn |
character databases
ⓘ
ideograph indexing systems ⓘ lexicographic description of Han characters ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
CJK
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chinese ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Korean ⓘ Vietnamese ⓘ |
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