ideographic description sequence

English

Examples
⿱宀子 → 字 ⿷匚斤 → 匠 ⿺辶言 → 這 ⿻丷木 → 米 ⿳亠口小 → 京 ⿱土⿰土土 → 垚 ⿱⿲火言火又 → 夑 ⿿予 → 𠄔

Etymology

From ideographic +‎ description +‎ sequence.

Noun

ideographic description sequence (plural ideographic description sequences)

1. (Unicode) A sequence which describes the visual composition of a Chinese character; comprised of a ideographic description character that gives a layout (e.g. ⿰, ⿸) or transformation (e.g. ⿿), followed by one or more components which that character operates on, which may be encoded characters or other sequences in the same format.

See also

• ideographic description character