ideographic description sequence

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ideographic description sequence

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noun ideographic description sequences

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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@misc{ideographic_description_sequence_2026,
  title = {ideographic description sequence},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ideographic%20description%20sequence},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}