ideographic description sequence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

ideographic description sequence ideographic description sequences

Etymology

From ideographic + description + sequence.

Related words

ideographic description character
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