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U+2768 · MEDIUM LEFT PARENTHESIS ORNAMENT

Medium Left Parenthesis Ornament

CodepointU+2768
NameMEDIUM LEFT PARENTHESIS ORNAMENT
Decimal10088
BlockDingbats (U+2700–U+27BF)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategoryPs — Open Punctuation
Unicode version3.2 (2002)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthN — Neutral
MirroredYes

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 9D A8`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`2768`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`00002768`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`❨`
HTML hex	`❨`
CSS	`\2768`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u2768`
JSON	`\u2768`
Python	`\u2768`
Python	`\N{MEDIUM LEFT PARENTHESIS ORNAMENT}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u2768`
C / C++	`\u2768`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{2768}`
Go	`\u2768`
Ruby	`\u2768`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(10088)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%9D%A8`	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+0028(Left Parenthesis U+2772❲Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament U+3014〔Left Tortoise Shell Bracket U+FF3B［Fullwidth Left Square Bracket U+FD3E﴾Ornate Left Parenthesis

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Nearby in Dingbats

All in block →

U+2762❢Heavy Exclamation Mark Ornament U+2763❣Heavy Heart Exclamation Mark Ornament U+2764❤Heavy Black Heart U+2765❥Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet U+2766❦Floral Heart U+2767❧Rotated Floral Heart Bullet U+2769❩Medium Right Parenthesis Ornament U+276A❪Medium Flattened Left Parenthesis Ornament U+276B❫Medium Flattened Right Parenthesis Ornament U+276C❬Medium Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament U+276D❭Medium Right-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament U+276E❮Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament