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U+3016 · LEFT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET

Left White Lenticular Bracket

  • CodepointU+3016
  • NameLEFT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET
  • Decimal12310
  • 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+3016 (〖) is LEFT WHITE LENTICULAR 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+3017 〗.

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 80 963 bytes
UTF-1630161 code unit
UTF-32000030164 bytes
HTML decimal〖
HTML hex〖
CSS\3016in content: "…"
JavaScript\u3016
JSON\u3016
Python\u3016
Python\N{LEFT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET}by name
Java / C#\u3016
C / C++\u3016universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3016}
Go\u3016
Ruby\u3016
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12310)
URL-encoded%E3%80%96percent-encoded UTF-8
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Characters built on 〖

U+FE17︗Presentation Form for Vertical Left White Lenticular Bracket
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Nearby in CJK Symbols and Punctuation

All in block →
U+3010【Left Black Lenticular Bracket U+3011】Right Black Lenticular Bracket U+3012〒Postal Mark U+3013〓Geta Mark U+3014〔Left Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3015〕Right Tortoise Shell 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 U+301B〛Right White Square Bracket U+301C〜Wave Dash