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U+24AE · PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER S

Parenthesized Latin Small Letter S

  • CodepointU+24AE
  • NamePARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER S
  • Decimal9390
  • BlockEnclosed Alphanumerics (U+2460–U+24FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+24AE (⒮) is PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER S, a symbol in the Enclosed Alphanumerics block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a compatibility variant of U+0028 ( + U+0073 s + U+0029 ) (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0028 ( + U+0073 s + U+0029 ). Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ⒮

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 92 AE3 bytes
UTF-1624AE1 code unit
UTF-32000024AE4 bytes
HTML decimal&#9390;
HTML hex&#x24AE;
CSS\24AEin content: "…"
JavaScript\u24AE
JSON\u24AE
Python\u24AE
Python\N{PARENTHESIZED LATIN SMALL LETTER S}by name
Java / C#\u24AE
C / C++\u24AEuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{24AE}
Go\u24AE
Ruby\u24AE
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9390)
URL-encoded%E2%92%AEpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0028 ( + U+0073 s + U+0029 )
NFKDU+0028 ( + U+0073 s + U+0029 )
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Nearby in Enclosed Alphanumerics

All in block →
U+24A8⒨Parenthesized Latin Small Letter M U+24A9⒩Parenthesized Latin Small Letter N U+24AA⒪Parenthesized Latin Small Letter O U+24AB⒫Parenthesized Latin Small Letter P U+24AC⒬Parenthesized Latin Small Letter Q U+24AD⒭Parenthesized Latin Small Letter R U+24AF⒯Parenthesized Latin Small Letter T U+24B0⒰Parenthesized Latin Small Letter U U+24B1⒱Parenthesized Latin Small Letter V U+24B2⒲Parenthesized Latin Small Letter W U+24B3⒳Parenthesized Latin Small Letter X U+24B4⒴Parenthesized Latin Small Letter Y