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- Chinese Character Structure

The character structure information is very useful for Chinese language learners to recognize the character composition. The following table lists the common character structures of modern Chinese characters. It is based on the the 12 Ideographic Description Characters (IDCs) introduced in ISO 10646 and the version 3.0 of the Unicode standard, They describe the ideographic character composition at the abstract level.

Ideographic Description Character	Unicode	Description	Description in Chinese	Example Characters
⿰	2FF0	Left to Right	左右结构	好, 你, 吗, 他
⿱	2FF1	Above to Below	上下结构	主, 全, 分, 乔
⿲	2FF2	Left to Middle and Right	左中右结构	辩, 班, 辙, 弼
⿳	2FF3	Above to Middle and Below	上中下结构	复, 享, 兽, 养
⿴	2FF4	Full Surround	全包围结构	囚, 回, 因, 叉
⿵	2FF5	Surround from Above	上包围结构	冈, 闭, 咸, 凤
⿶	2FF6	Surround from Below	下包围结构	凶, 凿, 鼎, 凼
⿷	2FF7	Surround from Left	左包围结构	匠, 区, 医, 匪,
⿸	2FF8	Surround from Upper Left	左上包围结构	厘, 危, 友, 发
⿹	2FF9	Surround from Upper Right	右上包围结构	乌, 可, 包, 乃
⿺	2FFA	Surround from Lower Left	左下包围结构	勉, 处, 起, 建,
⿻	2FFB	Overlaid	交叉结构	坐, 农, 幽, 臾

Note that the characters that appear in the first column of the table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.