U+3016 "〖" Left White Lenticular Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+3016 "〖" Left White Lenticular Bracket is a punctuation mark used in East Asian typography, particularly in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts, where it often pairs with its mirror image, U+3017 "〗" Right White Lenticular Bracket, to enclose annotations, comments, or supplementary information. Its design features a white (hollow) lenticular, or lens shaped, form that distinguishes it from solid bracket variants, and it is primarily employed in vertical writing systems or as a decorative alternative to standard brackets in formal or literary contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3016 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Left White Lenticular Bracket |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Opening White Lenticular Bracket |
| Block | CJK Symbols and Punctuation |
| General Category | Open Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "〗" U+3017 Right White Lenticular Bracket |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type | Open |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket | "〗" U+3017 Right White Lenticular Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 〖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 〖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x80 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3016 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003016 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3016 |
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 |
| Vertical Orientation | Transformed Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Close |