U+2E26 LEFT SIDEWAYS U BRACKET

The Unicode character U+2E26, officially named LEFT SIDEWAYS U BRACKET, 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 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.