What is the difference between Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament and Left Parenthesis?

Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament is U+2772 in the Dingbats block. Left Parenthesis is U+0028 in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament?

The HTML entity for Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament (U+2772) is ❲.

What is the HTML entity for Left Parenthesis?

The HTML entity for Left Parenthesis (U+0028) is (.

Are Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament and Left Parenthesis the same Unicode character?

No. Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament is U+2772 (decimal 10098) and Left Parenthesis is U+0028 (decimal 40). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament and Left Parenthesis?

Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament (U+2772) encodes as E2 9D B2 in UTF-8. Left Parenthesis (U+0028) encodes as 28 in UTF-8.

Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament vs Left Parenthesis

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

❲

Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament

U+2772

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(

Left Parenthesis

U+0028

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Property Comparison

Property	Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament	Left Parenthesis
Codepoint	`U+2772`	`U+0028`
Decimal	`10098`	`40`
HTML Entity	`❲`	`(`
HTML Decimal	`❲`	`(`
HTML Hex	`❲`	`(`
UTF-8	`E2 9D B2`	`28`
UTF-16	`27 72`	`00 28`
UTF-32	`00002772`	`00000028`
CSS Escape	`\2772`	`\28`
JS Escape	`\u2772`	`\u0028`
Python Escape	`\u2772`	`\u0028`
URL Encoded	`%E2%9D%B2`	`%28`
Category	`Open Punctuation (Ps)`	`Open Punctuation (Ps)`
Block	`Dingbats`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`3.2`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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