Ideographic Description Characters
E775470
Ideographic Description Characters is a Unicode block that provides special symbols used to visually describe the structure and composition of CJK ideographs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls | 1 |
| Ideographic Description Characters canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9050988 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ideographic Description Characters Context triple: [Chữ Nôm, UnicodeBlock, Ideographic Description Characters]
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A.
CJK Unified Ideographs
CJK Unified Ideographs is a standardized set of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean logographic characters encoded in Unicode to unify and represent Han-based writing systems across East Asia.
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B.
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement is a Unicode block that provides additional Han characters used mainly for compatibility with legacy East Asian encoding standards.
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C.
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D is a Unicode block that adds a set of rare and historic Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters beyond the basic CJK repertoire.
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D.
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G is a Unicode block that adds a large set of additional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ideographs, primarily for rare and historical characters.
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E.
Unicode Character Database
The Unicode Character Database is a comprehensive collection of machine-readable data files that define the properties, classifications, and behaviors of every character encoded in the Unicode Standard.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ideographic Description Characters Target entity description: Ideographic Description Characters is a Unicode block that provides special symbols used to visually describe the structure and composition of CJK ideographs.
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A.
CJK Unified Ideographs
CJK Unified Ideographs is a standardized set of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean logographic characters encoded in Unicode to unify and represent Han-based writing systems across East Asia.
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B.
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement is a Unicode block that provides additional Han characters used mainly for compatibility with legacy East Asian encoding standards.
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C.
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D is a Unicode block that adds a set of rare and historic Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters beyond the basic CJK repertoire.
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D.
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G is a Unicode block that adds a large set of additional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ideographs, primarily for rare and historical characters.
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E.
Unicode Character Database
The Unicode Character Database is a comprehensive collection of machine-readable data files that define the properties, classifications, and behaviors of every character encoded in the Unicode Standard.
- F. None of above. chosen
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 ⓘ |
| documentation |
Unicode Standard, Chapter on Han and East Asian Scripts
ⓘ
linked to:
The Unicode Standard
|
| encodingStandard | Unicode ⓘ |
| endCodePoint | U+2FFF ⓘ |
| function | combine with CJK ideographs to form structural descriptions ⓘ |
| generalCategory | Symbol, Other ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | IDC ⓘ |
| hasDirectionality | bidirectional class: Other Neutrals ⓘ |
| introducedInStandard |
Unicode Standard Version 3.0
ⓘ
linked to:
Unicode 3.0
|
| notUsedFor |
representing standalone morphemes
ⓘ
representing standalone words ⓘ |
| plane | Basic Multilingual Plane ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
CJK Radicals
ⓘ
CJK Unified Ideographs ⓘ |
| 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
ⓘ
linked to:
CJK Unified Ideographs
Chinese ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Korean ⓘ Vietnamese ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ideographic Description Characters Description of subject: Ideographic Description Characters is a Unicode block that provides special symbols used to visually describe the structure and composition of CJK ideographs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ideographic Description Characters