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U+23DC · TOP PARENTHESIS

Top Parenthesis

CodepointU+23DC
NameTOP PARENTHESIS
Decimal9180
BlockMiscellaneous Technical (U+2300–U+23FF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategorySm — Math Symbol
Unicode version5.0 (2006)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthN — Neutral
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 8F 9C`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`23DC`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`000023DC`	4 bytes
HTML named	`&OverParenthesis;`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`⏜`
HTML hex	`⏜`
CSS	`\23DC`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u23DC`
JSON	`\u23DC`
Python	`\u23DC`
Python	`\N{TOP PARENTHESIS}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u23DC`
C / C++	`\u23DC`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{23DC}`
Go	`\u23DC`
Ruby	`\u23DC`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(9180)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%8F%9C`	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+FE35︵Presentation Form for Vertical Left Parenthesis

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