IDS Database



The BabelStone IDS database is a plain text listing (encoded as UTF-8) of Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS) for all encoded CJK Unified Ideographs. It is maintained by Andrew West (魏安) (babelstone@gmail.com), to whom any corrections should be directed. The current version supports Unicode version 16.0 (September 2024), and includes 97,680 entries. The file can be downloaded from:



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