U+3018 Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket
U+3018 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block CJK Symbols and Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Open Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Bopomofo, Hangul, Han, Hiragana, Katakana, Yi.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Right White Tortoise Shell Bracket. U+3018 prohibits a line break after it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
This article lists Japanese typographic symbols that are not included in kana or kanji groupings.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 12312 |
| UTF-8 | E3 80 98 |
| UTF-16 | 30 18 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 30 18 |
| URL-Quoted | %E3%80%98 |
| HTML hex reference | 〘 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 〘 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A2 D8 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A2 D8 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 39 A3 37 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 22 58 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 22 58 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 D6 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 D6 |
| LATEX | \ElsevierGlyph{3018} |
| Adobe Glyph List | whitetortoiseshellbracketleft |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LEFT WHITE TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET | |
| OPENING WHITE TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET | |
| CJK Symbols and Punctuation | |
| Open Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| Yes | |
| Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| Yes | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Close | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Right White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| Right White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| Open | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Open Punctuation | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket | |
| Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana Yi | |
| Tr |