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U+300C · LEFT CORNER BRACKET

Left Corner Bracket

  • CodepointU+300C
  • NameLEFT CORNER BRACKET
  • Decimal12300
  • BlockCJK Symbols and Punctuation (U+3000–U+303F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPs — Open Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredYes

About this character

U+300C (「) is LEFT CORNER BRACKET, an opening bracket or punctuation mark in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation 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 mirrored character: in right-to-left text it is displayed as its mirror image, which matches U+300D 」.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type 「

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E3 80 8C3 bytes
UTF-16300C1 code unit
UTF-320000300C4 bytes
HTML decimal「
HTML hex「
CSS\300Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u300C
JSON\u300C
Python\u300C
Python\N{LEFT CORNER BRACKET}by name
Java / C#\u300C
C / C++\u300Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{300C}
Go\u300C
Ruby\u300C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12300)
URL-encoded%E3%80%8Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Characters built on 「

U+FF62｢Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket U+FE41﹁Presentation Form for Vertical Left Corner Bracket
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Nearby in CJK Symbols and Punctuation

All in block →
U+3006〆Ideographic Closing Mark U+3007〇Ideographic Number Zero U+3008〈Left Angle Bracket U+3009〉Right Angle Bracket U+300A《Left Double Angle Bracket U+300B》Right Double Angle Bracket U+300D」Right Corner Bracket U+300E『Left White Corner Bracket U+300F』Right White Corner Bracket U+3010【Left Black Lenticular Bracket U+3011】Right Black Lenticular Bracket U+3012〒Postal Mark