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U+2772 · LIGHT LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET ORNAMENT

Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament

CodepointU+2772
NameLIGHT LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET ORNAMENT
Decimal10098
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 B2`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`2772`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`00002772`	4 bytes
HTML named	`&lbbrk;`	named character reference
HTML decimal	`❲`
HTML hex	`❲`
CSS	`\2772`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u2772`
JSON	`\u2772`
Python	`\u2772`
Python	`\N{LIGHT LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET ORNAMENT}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u2772`
C / C++	`\u2772`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{2772}`
Go	`\u2772`
Ruby	`\u2772`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(10098)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%9D%B2`	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+2768❨Medium Left Parenthesis 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 →

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