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U+2E26 · LEFT SIDEWAYS U BRACKET

Left Sideways U Bracket

CodepointU+2E26
NameLEFT SIDEWAYS U BRACKET
Decimal11814
BlockSupplemental Punctuation (U+2E00–U+2E7F)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategoryPs — Open Punctuation
Unicode version5.1 (2008)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthN — Neutral
MirroredYes

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 B8 A6`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`2E26`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`00002E26`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`⸦`
HTML hex	`⸦`
CSS	`\2E26`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u2E26`
JSON	`\u2E26`
Python	`\u2E26`
Python	`\N{LEFT SIDEWAYS U BRACKET}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u2E26`
C / C++	`\u2E26`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{2E26}`
Go	`\u2E26`
Ruby	`\u2E26`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(11814)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%B8%A6`	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+2282⊂Subset of U+1455ᑕCanadian Syllabics Ta

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Nearby in Supplemental Punctuation

All in block →

U+2E20⸠Left Vertical Bar with Quill U+2E21⸡Right Vertical Bar with Quill U+2E22⸢Top Left Half Bracket U+2E23⸣Top Right Half Bracket U+2E24⸤Bottom Left Half Bracket U+2E25⸥Bottom Right Half Bracket U+2E27⸧Right Sideways U Bracket U+2E28⸨Left Double Parenthesis U+2E29⸩Right Double Parenthesis U+2E2A⸪Two Dots Over One Dot Punctuation U+2E2B⸫One Dot Over Two Dots Punctuation U+2E2C⸬Squared Four Dot Punctuation