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U+23A2 · LEFT SQUARE BRACKET EXTENSION

Left Square Bracket Extension

CodepointU+23A2
NameLEFT SQUARE BRACKET EXTENSION
Decimal9122
BlockMiscellaneous Technical (U+2300–U+23FF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategorySm — Math Symbol
Unicode version3.2 (2002)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthN — Neutral
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 8E A2`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`23A2`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000023A2`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`⎢`
HTML hex	`⎢`
CSS	`\23A2`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u23A2`
JSON	`\u23A2`
Python	`\u23A2`
Python	`\N{LEFT SQUARE BRACKET EXTENSION}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u23A2`
C / C++	`\u23A2`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{23A2}`
Go	`\u23A2`
Ruby	`\u23A2`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(9122)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%8E%A2`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+239C⎜Left Parenthesis Extension U+239F⎟Right Parenthesis Extension U+23A5⎥Right Square Bracket Extension U+23AA⎪Curly Bracket Extension U+23AE⎮Integral Extension U+3163ㅣHangul Letter I U+1175ᅵHangul Jungseong I U+2F01⼁Kangxi Radical Line U+31D1㇑CJK Stroke S U+4E28丨CJK Unified Ideograph-4e28

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Nearby in Miscellaneous Technical

All in block →

U+239C⎜Left Parenthesis Extension U+239D⎝Left Parenthesis Lower Hook U+239E⎞Right Parenthesis Upper Hook U+239F⎟Right Parenthesis Extension U+23A0⎠Right Parenthesis Lower Hook U+23A1⎡Left Square Bracket Upper Corner U+23A3⎣Left Square Bracket Lower Corner U+23A4⎤Right Square Bracket Upper Corner U+23A5⎥Right Square Bracket Extension U+23A6⎦Right Square Bracket Lower Corner U+23A7⎧Left Curly Bracket Upper Hook U+23A8⎨Left Curly Bracket Middle Piece