U+1F129 "🄩" Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter Z Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F129 "🄩" Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter Z is part of the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, representing a stylized version of the Latin capital letter Z enclosed within parentheses. This character was introduced to the Unicode standard in version 5.2, released in 2009, and is typically used in decorative or list-based contexts where a parenthesized letter serves as a typographic ornament or a marker for sequencing. Its design varies across fonts, but it generally retains the familiar shape of a capital Z surrounded by matching parentheses, distinguishing it from a simple letter and punctuation combination.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F129
Version Added 5.2
Name Parenthesized Latin Capital Letter Z
Block Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis
"Z" U+005A Latin Capital Letter Z
")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 🄩
HTML Hex Encoding 🄩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0x84 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83C 0xDD29
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F129
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83c\udd29

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis
"z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z
")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis
NFKC Simple Casefold "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis
"z" U+007A Latin Small Letter Z
")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other