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# isIdeographic

A Boolean value indicating whether the scalar is considered to be a
CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese) or other siniform
(Chinese writing-related) ideograph.

```
var isIdeographic: Bool { get }
```

## Discussion

This property roughly defines the class of “Chinese characters” and does
not include characters of other logographic scripts such as Cuneiform or
Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

This property corresponds to the “Ideographic” property in the
[Unicode Standard](http://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/).

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