ideographic description sequence

noun

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.

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Meanings

nounideographic description sequence (plural ideographic description sequences)

plural ideographic description sequences

  1. UnicodeA 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.

Origin

From ideographic + description + sequence.

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