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U+FE5D · SMALL LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET

Small Left Tortoise Shell Bracket

  • CodepointU+FE5D
  • NameSMALL LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET
  • Decimal65117
  • BlockSmall Form Variants (U+FE50–U+FE6F)
  • 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+FE5D (﹝) is SMALL LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET, an opening bracket or punctuation mark in the Small Form Variants 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 small variant of U+3014 〔 (compatibility decomposition <small>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+3014 〔. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

It is a mirrored character: in right-to-left text it is displayed as its mirror image, which matches U+FE5E ﹞.

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-8EF B9 9D3 bytes
UTF-16FE5D1 code unit
UTF-320000FE5D4 bytes
HTML decimal&#65117;
HTML hex&#xFE5D;
CSS\FE5Din content: "…"
JavaScript\uFE5D
JSON\uFE5D
Python\uFE5D
Python\N{SMALL LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET}by name
Java / C#\uFE5D
C / C++\uFE5Duniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FE5D}
Go\uFE5D
Ruby\uFE5D
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65117)
URL-encoded%EF%B9%9Dpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+3014 〔
NFKDU+3014 〔
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Nearby in Small Form Variants

All in block →
U+FE57﹗Small Exclamation Mark U+FE58﹘Small Em Dash U+FE59﹙Small Left Parenthesis U+FE5A﹚Small Right Parenthesis U+FE5B﹛Small Left Curly Bracket U+FE5C﹜Small Right Curly Bracket U+FE5E﹞Small Right Tortoise Shell Bracket U+FE5F﹟Small Number Sign U+FE60﹠Small Ampersand U+FE61﹡Small Asterisk U+FE62﹢Small Plus Sign U+FE63﹣Small Hyphen-Minus