Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ideographic description sequence

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.71 in modern English

Syllables: ideo-graph-ic de-scrip-tion se-quence
IPA

55

Scrabble Score

30

Letters

6

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

From ideographic + description + sequence.

Inflected Forms

ideographic description sequences (plural)

Phrases

ideographic description character

Frequently Paired Words

ideographic description character

Questions

What does ideographic description sequence mean?: 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.
Where does ideographic description sequence come from?: From ideographic + description + sequence.

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