U+2E24 "⸤" Bottom Left Half Bracket Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2E24 "⸤" Bottom Left Half Bracket is a typographic symbol used primarily in historical and specialized text annotation to denote the beginning of a vertical or marginal note, often pairing with a corresponding top or right half bracket to enclose editorial corrections or insertions. It appears as a small, angled bracket shape that occupies the bottom left quadrant of a character space, and its design allows it to function as a delimeter in certain complex writing systems or scholarly transcriptions where full brackets would be visually disruptive. This character is part of the Supplemental Punctuation block and is distinct from standard bracket characters due to its fragmented form, which supports precise placement in vertical text layout or alongside other half bracket variants.

General Properties

Code Point U+2E24
Version Added 5.1
Name Bottom Left Half Bracket
Block Supplemental Punctuation
General Category Open Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral
Mirrored Yes
Mirrored Character "⸥" U+2E25 Bottom Right Half Bracket
Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type Open
Bidirectional Paired Bracket "⸥" U+2E25 Bottom Right Half Bracket

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⸤
HTML Hex Encoding ⸤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xB8 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2E24
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002E24
C/C++/Java Escape \u2e24

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