Source: Noto Sans Yi

U+FF62 Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket

U+FF62 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. 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. It is also used in the scripts Bopomofo, Hangul, Han, Hiragana, Katakana, Yi.

The glyph is a narrow version of the glyph Left Corner Bracket. Accordingly, its width in East Asian Text is halfwidth. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Halfwidth Right Corner Bracket. U+FF62 prohibits a line break after it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	65378
UTF-8	EF BD A2
UTF-16	FF 62
UTF-32	00 00 FF 62
URL-Quoted	%EF%BD%A2
HTML hex reference	｢
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ï½¢
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)	A2
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)	8E A2
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)	8E A2
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)	8E A2
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	84 31 95 38
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)	1B 28 49 22 1B 28 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)	A2
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)	A2
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)	A2
Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes)	42
Adobe Glyph List	cornerbracketlefthalfwidth

Related Characters

Halfwidth Right Corner Bracket

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	HALFWIDTH LEFT CORNER BRACKET
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	HALFWIDTH OPENING CORNER BRACKET
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)	narrow
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Left Corner Bracket
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket
Case Folding (cf)	Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket
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)	Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket
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)	Left Corner Bracket
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Left Corner Bracket
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)	Halfwidth Right Corner Bracket
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Halfwidth Right Corner Bracket
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	Open
East Asian Width (ea)	halfwidth
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)	Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket
Script Extension (scx)	Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana Yi
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R