Home U+FF00 to U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Glyph for U+FF5F
Source: Noto CJK

U+FF5F Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis

U+FF5F was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block U+FF00 to U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 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 a wide version of the glyph Glyph for U+2985 Left White Parenthesis. Accordingly, its width in East Asian Text is fullwidth. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Glyph for U+FF60 Fullwidth Right White Parenthesis. U+FF5F prohibits a line break after it.

Representations

System Representation (click value to copy)
Nº 65375
UTF-8 EF BD 9F
UTF-16 FF 5F
UTF-32 00 00 FF 5F
URL-Quoted %EF%BD%9F
HTML hex reference ｟
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ｟
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 84 31 95 35
RFC 5137 \u'FF5F'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e\uFF5F
C and C++ \uFF5F
C# \uFF5F
CSS \00FF5F
Excel =UNICHAR(65375)
Go \uFF5F
JavaScript \uFF5F
Modern JavaScript since ES6\u{ff5f}
JSON \uFF5F
Java \uFF5F
Lua \u{FF5F}
Matlab char(65375)
Perl "\x{FF5F}"
PHP \u{ff5f}
PostgreSQL U&'\FF5F'
PowerShell `u{FF5F}
Python \uFF5F
Ruby \u{ff5f}
Rust \u{ff5f}
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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 3.2 (2002)
Unicode Name (na) FULLWIDTH LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category (gc) Open Punctuation
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) wide
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+2985 Left White Parenthesis
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+FF5F Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+FF5F Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+FF5F Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+FF5F Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+FF5F Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+FF5F Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+FF5F Fullwidth Left White 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) Glyph for U+FF5F Fullwidth Left White 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) Glyph for U+2985 Left White Parenthesis
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+2985 Left White Parenthesis
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
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) Glyph for U+FF60 Fullwidth Right White Parenthesis
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+FF60 Fullwidth Right White Parenthesis
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) Open
East Asian Width (ea) fullwidth
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) Glyph for U+FF5F Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) Tr