Source: Unifont

U+2E59 Top Half Left Parenthesis

U+2E59 was added to Unicode in version 14.0 (2021). It belongs to the block U+2E00 to U+2E7F Supplemental Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Open Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is mirrored. Its corresponding mirrored glyph is Top Half Right Parenthesis. In text U+2E59 behaves as Open Punctuation regarding line breaks. It has type Close for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	11865
UTF-8	E2 B9 99
UTF-16	2E 59
UTF-32	00 00 2E 59
URL-Quoted	%E2%B9%99
HTML-Escape	⹙
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	â¹

Related Characters

Top Half Right Parenthesis

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	14.0 (2021)
Unicode Name	TOP HALF LEFT PARENTHESIS
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
General Category	Open Punctuation
Script	Common
Bidirectional Category	Other Neutral
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Top Half Left Parenthesis
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Top Half Left Parenthesis
Lowercase Mapping	Top Half Left Parenthesis
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Top Half Left Parenthesis
Uppercase Mapping	Top Half Left Parenthesis
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Top Half Left Parenthesis
Titlecase Mapping	Top Half Left Parenthesis
Case Folding	Top Half Left Parenthesis
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✘
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✔
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Top Half Left Parenthesis
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✘
ID Start	✘
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Top Half Left Parenthesis
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✔
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Close
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✘
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Mirrored Glyph	Top Half Right Parenthesis
Bidi Paired Bracket	Top Half Right Parenthesis
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	Open
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Open Punctuation
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Top Half Left Parenthesis
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R