Left White Square Bracket

U+301A
BMP Unicode 1.1
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+301A
Decimal
12314
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
W Wide

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

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 Square Bracket.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
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HTML Hex
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UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E3 80 9A
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
30 1A
UTF-32 Hex
0000301A
CSS Escape
\301A
JavaScript Escape
\u301A
Python Escape
\u301A
URL Encoded
%E3%80%9A
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