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U+3014 · LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET

Left Tortoise Shell Bracket

  • CodepointU+3014
  • NameLEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET
  • Decimal12308
  • 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+3014 (〔) is LEFT TORTOISE SHELL 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+3015 〕.

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 80 943 bytes
UTF-1630141 code unit
UTF-32000030144 bytes
HTML decimal〔
HTML hex〔
CSS\3014in content: "…"
JavaScript\u3014
JSON\u3014
Python\u3014
Python\N{LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET}by name
Java / C#\u3014
C / C++\u3014universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3014}
Go\u3014
Ruby\u3014
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12308)
URL-encoded%E3%80%94percent-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+2772❲Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament U+FF3B［Fullwidth Left Square Bracket U+FD3E﴾Ornate Left Parenthesis
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Characters built on 〔

U+FE5D﹝Small Left Tortoise Shell Bracket U+1F12A🄪Tortoise Shell Bracketed Latin Capital Letter S U+1F240🉀Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-672c U+1F241🉁Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-4e09 U+1F242🉂Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-4e8c U+1F243🉃Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-5b89 U+1F244🉄Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-70b9 U+1F245🉅Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-6253 U+1F246🉆Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-76d7 U+1F247🉇Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-52dd U+1F248🉈Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-6557 U+FE39︹Presentation Form for Vertical Left Tortoise Shell Bracket
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Nearby in CJK Symbols and Punctuation

All in block →
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 U+3013〓Geta Mark U+3015〕Right Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3016〖Left White Lenticular Bracket U+3017〗Right White Lenticular Bracket U+3018〘Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3019〙Right White Tortoise Shell Bracket U+301A〚Left White Square Bracket