U+24B0 "⒰" Parenthesized Latin Small Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⒰
U+24B0 "⒰" Parenthesized Latin Small Letter U is part of the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, specifically designed as a typographic variant of the letter "u" enclosed within parentheses, created for compatibility with older text encoding standards or for use in specialized notation where such bracketed characters were required. It is not commonly used in modern plain text but may appear in legacy documents, certain academic or legal references, or as a stylistic element in list formatting, maintaining the function of visually isolating or annotating the letter "u" within a parenthetical enclosure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+24B0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Latin Small Letter U |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumerics |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis "u" U+0075 Latin Small Letter U ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⒰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⒰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x92 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x24B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000024B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u24b0 |