U+300E "『" Left White Corner Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+300E "『" Left White Corner Bracket is a typographical symbol used primarily in East Asian writing systems, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It serves as a quotation mark or an enclosing bracket, often employed to denote the title of a book, article, or similar work, distinguishing it from regular speech or text. Its white, or hollow, design visually contrasts with the filled variants of corner brackets, adding a stylistic alternative for formal or decorative purposes in published materials.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+300E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Left White Corner Bracket |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Opening White Corner Bracket |
| Block | CJK Symbols and Punctuation |
| General Category | Open Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "』" U+300F Right White Corner Bracket |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type | Open |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket | "』" U+300F Right White Corner Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 『 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 『 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x80 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x300E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000300E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u300e |
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 |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana Yi |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Quotation Mark | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Transformed Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Close |