U+2045 "⁅" Left Square Bracket with Quill Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⁅
U+2045 "⁅" Left Square Bracket with Quill is a punctuation mark that appears in some historical and specialized typographic contexts, often used as an ornamental or editorial variant of the standard left square bracket. Its design incorporates a quill or flourish extending from the bracket, suggesting its potential use in manuscripts or decorated texts to denote inserted annotations, corrections, or commentary. While not commonly found in modern everyday writing, it remains part of the Unicode standard for compatibility and representation of diverse scripts and typographic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2045 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Left Square Bracket with Quill |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Open Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "⁆" U+2046 Right Square Bracket with Quill |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type | Open |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket | "⁆" U+2046 Right Square Bracket with Quill |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⁅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⁅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x81 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2045 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002045 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2045 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Open Punctuation |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Close |