U+301A LEFT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET

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Decimal / Nº
12314
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
wide
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+301A, officially named LEFT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the CJK Symbols block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as OPENING WHITE SQUARE BRACKET.

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 wide 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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12314 Copied!
UTF-8 E3 80 9A Copied!
UTF-16 30 1A Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 30 1A Copied!
URL-Quoted %E3%80%9A Copied!
HTML hex reference 〚 Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'301A' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u301A Copied!
C and C++ \u301a Copied!
C# \u301a Copied!
CSS \00301A Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(12314) Copied!
Go \u301a Copied!
JavaScript \u301A Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{301a} Copied!
JSON \u301A Copied!
Java \u301A Copied!
Lua \u{301A} Copied!
Matlab char(12314) Copied!
Perl \x{301A} Copied!
PHP \u{301a} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\301A' Copied!
PowerShell `u{301A} Copied!
Python \u301a Copied!
Ruby \u{301a} Copied!
Rust \u{301a} Copied!