U+005B Left Square Bracket
U+005B was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Open Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as opening square bracket (1.0).
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into
The CLDR project calls this character “open square bracket” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: bracket, crotchet, open, square.
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Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | |
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Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | |
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Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | |
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Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | |
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Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: KOI8_R (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: KOI8_U (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP1025 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP1123 (hex bytes) | |
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Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | |
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Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | |
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Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | |
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Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | |
Encoding: CP833 (hex bytes) | |
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Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) | |
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Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | |
AGL: Latin-1 | |
AGL: Latin-2 | |
AGL: Latin-3 | |
AGL: Latin-4 | |
AGL: Latin-5 | |
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Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
LEFT SQUARE BRACKET | |
OPENING SQUARE BRACKET | |
Basic Latin | |
Open Punctuation | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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0 | |
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None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
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✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Close | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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narrow | |
Not Applicable | |
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No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Open Punctuation | |
none | |
not a number | |
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