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CHARACTER COMPONENT PATTERNS

OVERVIEW

Characters consist of one or more components, each of which is either a character, a radical (character) or a stroke.  Each character’s components can be arranged in one of the patterns shown in the list below.

NOTE – Our list deviates from the Unicode Ideographic Description Sequences, which has 12 component patterns. We’ve added 4 additional patterns that we think may provide more complete coverage of patterns not included in the Unicode list.

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hanzi-02-char--pian-pang-0615-x-0555-trans-zh

COMPONENT PATTERN LIST

PATTERNDESCEXAMPLESUNICODE
2 COMPONENTS: 1 LEFT - 1 RIGHTU+2FF0
3 COMPONENTS: 1 LEFT - 1 MIDDLE - 1 RIGHTU+2FF2
3 COMPONENTS: 2 LEFT - 1 RIGHT-
3 COMPONENTS: 1 LEFT - 2 RIGHT-
2 COMPONENTS: 1 TOP - 1 BOTTOMU+2FF1
3 COMPONENTS: 1 TOP - 1 MIDDLE - 1 BOTTOMU+2FF3
3 COMPONENTS: 2 TOP - 1 BOTTOM-
3 COMPONENTS: 1 TOP - 2 BOTTOM-
4 COMPONENTS: 2 TOP - 2 BOTTOM-
2 COMPONENTS: 1 INSIDE ANOTHER - CENTERU+2FF4
2 COMPONENTS: 1 INSIDE ANOTHER - MIDDLE BOTTOMU+2FF5
2 COMPONENTS: 1 INSIDE ANOTHER - MIDDLE TOPU+2FF6
2 COMPONENTS: 1 INSIDE ANOTHER - LEFT BOTTOMU+2FF9
2 COMPONENTS: 1 INSIDE ANOTHER - RIGHT BOTTOMU+2FF8
2 COMPONENTS: 1 INSIDE ANOTHER - LEFT MIDDLEU+2FF7
2 COMPONENTS: 1 INSIDE ANOTHER - RIGHT MIDDLE-
2 COMPONENTS: 1 INSIDE ANOTHER - RIGHT TOPU+2FFA
2 COMPONENTS: 1 INSIDE ANOTHER - LEFT TOP-
2 COMPONENTS: 1 OVERLAID ANOTHERU+2FFB
1 COMPONENT-

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