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Left Square Bracket

U+005B
BMP Unicode 1.1
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Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+005B
Decimal
91
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Open Punctuation (Ps)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
Mirrored
Yes — glyph is mirrored in RTL context
East Asian Width
Na Narrow

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Left Square Bracket.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
[
HTML Hex
[
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
5B
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
00 5B
UTF-32 Hex
0000005B
CSS Escape
\5B
JavaScript Escape
\u005B
Python Escape
\u005B
URL Encoded
%5B
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Left Square Bracket as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.