Ideographic description character: surround from left

Read the enclosing part first, then the part inside.

In ⿷匚王, ⿷ gives the arrangement, 匚 supplies the frame, and 王 goes inside it to describe 匡. The enclosure runs along the left, top and bottom. This is a description of the finished shape, not an instruction about stroke order.

Han characters are the Chinese-origin characters used in Chinese, Japanese and Korean writing. An ideographic description character (IDC) such as ⿷ lets you describe their structure using smaller parts. This is particularly useful for recording a character that has no encoded form of its own; the example 匡 shows that encoded characters can be described too.