Source: Noto Sans

U+2E5B Bottom Half Left Parenthesis

U+2E5B was added in Unicode version 14.0 in 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 no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Bottom Half Right Parenthesis. U+2E5B prohibits a line break after it.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	11867
UTF-8	E2 B9 9B
UTF-16	2E 5B
UTF-32	00 00 2E 5B
URL-Quoted	%E2%B9%9B
HTML hex reference	⹛
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	â¹›
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 38 FA 31

Related Characters

Bottom Half Right Parenthesis

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	14.0 (2021)
Unicode Name (na)	BOTTOM HALF LEFT PARENTHESIS
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
General Category (gc)	Open Punctuation
Script (sc)	Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Bottom Half Left Parenthesis
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Bottom Half Left Parenthesis
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Bottom Half Left Parenthesis
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Bottom Half Left Parenthesis
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Bottom Half Left Parenthesis
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Bottom Half Left Parenthesis
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Bottom Half Left Parenthesis
Case Folding (cf)	Bottom Half Left Parenthesis
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✔
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Bottom Half Left Parenthesis
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✘
ID Start (IDS)	✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Bottom Half Left Parenthesis
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Bottom Half Left Parenthesis
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Close
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Other
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✘
XID Start (XIDS)	✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Mirrored Glyph (bmg)	Bottom Half Right Parenthesis
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Bottom Half Right Parenthesis
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	Open
East Asian Width (ea)	neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Open Punctuation
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Bottom Half Left Parenthesis
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R