The Unicode block "Ideographic Description Characters" (IDC) is a set of characters used to describe the components of ideographic characters, primarily for use in East Asian writing systems like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This block includes a variety of shapes and marks that can be combined to visually depict the structure of complex ideographs. These characters are often used in dictionaries, educational materials, and text processing tools to provide a clearer understanding of how individual ideographic components are constructed.

View a range of fonts that support the Ideographic Description Characters block.

Below you will find all the characters that are in the Ideographic Description Characters unicode block. Currently there are 16 characters in this block.