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U+3018 · LEFT WHITE TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET

Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket

  • CodepointU+3018
  • NameLEFT WHITE TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET
  • Decimal12312
  • 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+3018 (〘) is LEFT WHITE 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+3019 〙.

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 80 983 bytes
UTF-1630181 code unit
UTF-32000030184 bytes
HTML decimal〘
HTML hex〘
CSS\3018in content: "…"
JavaScript\u3018
JSON\u3018
Python\u3018
Python\N{LEFT WHITE TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET}by name
Java / C#\u3018
C / C++\u3018universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3018}
Go\u3018
Ruby\u3018
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12312)
URL-encoded%E3%80%98percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in CJK Symbols and Punctuation

All in block →
U+3012〒Postal Mark U+3013〓Geta Mark U+3014〔Left Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3015〕Right Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3016〖Left White Lenticular Bracket U+3017〗Right White Lenticular Bracket U+3019〙Right White Tortoise Shell Bracket U+301A〚Left White Square Bracket U+301B〛Right White Square Bracket U+301C〜Wave Dash U+301D〝Reversed Double Prime Quotation Mark U+301E〞Double Prime Quotation Mark