What is the difference between Left Sideways U Bracket and Canadian Syllabics Ta?

Left Sideways U Bracket is U+2E26 in the Supplemental Punctuation block. Canadian Syllabics Ta is U+1455 in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Left Sideways U Bracket?

The HTML entity for Left Sideways U Bracket (U+2E26) is ⸦.

What is the HTML entity for Canadian Syllabics Ta?

The HTML entity for Canadian Syllabics Ta (U+1455) is ᑕ.

Are Left Sideways U Bracket and Canadian Syllabics Ta the same Unicode character?

No. Left Sideways U Bracket is U+2E26 (decimal 11814) and Canadian Syllabics Ta is U+1455 (decimal 5205). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Left Sideways U Bracket and Canadian Syllabics Ta?

Left Sideways U Bracket (U+2E26) encodes as E2 B8 A6 in UTF-8. Canadian Syllabics Ta (U+1455) encodes as E1 91 95 in UTF-8.

Left Sideways U Bracket vs Canadian Syllabics Ta

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.

⸦

Left Sideways U Bracket

U+2E26

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ᑕ

Canadian Syllabics Ta

U+1455

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Property Comparison

Property	Left Sideways U Bracket	Canadian Syllabics Ta
Codepoint	`U+2E26`	`U+1455`
Decimal	`11814`	`5205`
HTML Entity	`⸦`	`ᑕ`
HTML Decimal	`⸦`	`ᑕ`
HTML Hex	`⸦`	`ᑕ`
UTF-8	`E2 B8 A6`	`E1 91 95`
UTF-16	`2E 26`	`14 55`
UTF-32	`00002E26`	`00001455`
CSS Escape	`\2E26`	`\1455`
JS Escape	`\u2E26`	`\u1455`
Python Escape	`\u2E26`	`\u1455`
URL Encoded	`%E2%B8%A6`	`%E1%91%95`
Category	`Open Punctuation (Ps)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Supplemental Punctuation`	`Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics`
Script	`Common`	`Canadian Aboriginal`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`5.1`	`3.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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