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U+005B · LEFT SQUARE BRACKET

Left Square Bracket

CodepointU+005B
NameLEFT SQUARE BRACKET
Decimal91
BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategoryPs — Open Punctuation
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthNa — Narrow
MirroredYes

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`5B`	1 byte
UTF-16	`005B`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`0000005B`	4 bytes
HTML named	`[`	named character reference
HTML named	`[`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`[`
HTML hex	`[`
CSS	`\5B`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u005B`
JSON	`\u005B`
Python	`\u005B`
Python	`\N{LEFT SQUARE BRACKET}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u005B`
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{5B}`
Go	`\u005B`
Ruby	`\u005B`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(91)`
URL-encoded	`%5B`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Characters built on [

U+FF3B［Fullwidth Left Square Bracket U+FE47﹇Presentation Form for Vertical Left Square Bracket

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Nearby in Basic Latin

All in block →

U+0055ULatin Capital Letter U U+0056VLatin Capital Letter V U+0057WLatin Capital Letter W U+0058XLatin Capital Letter X U+0059YLatin Capital Letter Y U+005AZLatin Capital Letter Z U+005C\Reverse Solidus U+005D]Right Square Bracket U+005E^Circumflex Accent U+005F_Low Line U+0060`Grave Accent U+0061aLatin Small Letter A