U+2045 LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH QUILL

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Decimal / Nº
8261
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2045, officially named LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH QUILL, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Open Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8261 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 81 85 Copied!
UTF-16 20 45 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 45 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%81%85 Copied!
HTML hex reference ⁅ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2045' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2045 Copied!
C and C++ \u2045 Copied!
C# \u2045 Copied!
CSS \002045 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8261) Copied!
Go \u2045 Copied!
JavaScript \u2045 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2045} Copied!
JSON \u2045 Copied!
Java \u2045 Copied!
Lua \u{2045} Copied!
Matlab char(8261) Copied!
Perl \x{2045} Copied!
PHP \u{2045} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2045' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2045} Copied!
Python \u2045 Copied!
Ruby \u{2045} Copied!
Rust \u{2045} Copied!