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U+301A · LEFT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET

Left White Square Bracket

  • CodepointU+301A
  • NameLEFT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET
  • Decimal12314
  • 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+301A (〚) is LEFT WHITE SQUARE 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+301B 〛.

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 9A3 bytes
UTF-16301A1 code unit
UTF-320000301A4 bytes
HTML decimal〚
HTML hex〚
CSS\301Ain content: "…"
JavaScript\u301A
JSON\u301A
Python\u301A
Python\N{LEFT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET}by name
Java / C#\u301A
C / C++\u301Auniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{301A}
Go\u301A
Ruby\u301A
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12314)
URL-encoded%E3%80%9Apercent-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+27E6⟦Mathematical Left White Square Bracket
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Nearby in CJK Symbols and Punctuation

All in block →
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+3018〘Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3019〙Right White Tortoise Shell Bracket U+301B〛Right White Square Bracket U+301C〜Wave Dash U+301D〝Reversed Double Prime Quotation Mark U+301E〞Double Prime Quotation Mark U+301F〟Low Double Prime Quotation Mark U+3020〠Postal Mark Face