Left White Parenthesis

U+2985
BMP Unicode 3.2
Character
Decimal ⦅
Hex ⦅

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+2985
Decimal
10629
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
Properties
Math

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 White Parenthesis.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
⦅
HTML Hex
⦅
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 A6 85
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
29 85
UTF-32 Hex
00002985
CSS Escape
\2985
JavaScript Escape
\u2985
Python Escape
\u2985
URL Encoded
%E2%A6%85
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Characters That Include This

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