U+2E20 LEFT VERTICAL BAR WITH QUILL

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Decimal / Nº
11808
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+2E20, officially named LEFT VERTICAL BAR WITH QUILL, was introduced in Unicode version 5.1. It is part of the Sup Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Initial 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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11808 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 B8 A0 Copied!
UTF-16 2E 20 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 2E 20 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%B8%A0 Copied!
HTML hex reference ⸠ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2E20' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2E20 Copied!
C and C++ \u2e20 Copied!
C# \u2e20 Copied!
CSS \002E20 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(11808) Copied!
Go \u2e20 Copied!
JavaScript \u2E20 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2e20} Copied!
JSON \u2E20 Copied!
Java \u2E20 Copied!
Lua \u{2E20} Copied!
Matlab char(11808) Copied!
Perl \x{2E20} Copied!
PHP \u{2e20} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2E20' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2E20} Copied!
Python \u2e20 Copied!
Ruby \u{2e20} Copied!
Rust \u{2e20} Copied!