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U+FF5B · FULLWIDTH LEFT CURLY BRACKET

Fullwidth Left Curly Bracket

  • CodepointU+FF5B
  • NameFULLWIDTH LEFT CURLY BRACKET
  • Decimal65371
  • BlockHalfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (U+FF00–U+FFEF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPs — Open Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthF — Fullwidth
  • MirroredYes

About this character

U+FF5B (｛) is FULLWIDTH LEFT CURLY BRACKET, an opening bracket or punctuation mark in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 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 fullwidth form of U+007B { (compatibility decomposition <wide>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+007B {. 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+FF5D ｝.

Its East Asian Width is Fullwidth, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ｛

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF BD 9B3 bytes
UTF-16FF5B1 code unit
UTF-320000FF5B4 bytes
HTML decimal&#65371;
HTML hex&#xFF5B;
CSS\FF5Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\uFF5B
JSON\uFF5B
Python\uFF5B
Python\N{FULLWIDTH LEFT CURLY BRACKET}by name
Java / C#\uFF5B
C / C++\uFF5Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FF5B}
Go\uFF5B
Ruby\uFF5B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65371)
URL-encoded%EF%BD%9Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+007B {
NFKDU+007B {
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Nearby in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

All in block →
U+FF55ｕFullwidth Latin Small Letter U U+FF56ｖFullwidth Latin Small Letter V U+FF57ｗFullwidth Latin Small Letter W U+FF58ｘFullwidth Latin Small Letter X U+FF59ｙFullwidth Latin Small Letter Y U+FF5AｚFullwidth Latin Small Letter Z U+FF5C｜Fullwidth Vertical Line U+FF5D｝Fullwidth Right Curly Bracket U+FF5E～Fullwidth Tilde U+FF5F｟Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis U+FF60｠Fullwidth Right White Parenthesis U+FF61｡Halfwidth Ideographic Full Stop