U+E005B "" Tag Left Square Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E005B "" Tag Left Square Bracket is part of the Tags block, a special collection of code points designed for use in language tagging and text processing rather than for visible display. It belongs to a deprecated mechanism intended to embed metadata within plain text, such as indicating a specific language or script via tags formed from these characters, but it was never widely implemented and is now considered obsolete for most purposes. As a result, this character typically appears as a invisible or placeholder glyph in standard fonts and is not meant for direct use in everyday writing or formatting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E005B |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Tag Left Square Bracket |
| Block | Tags |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠁛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠁛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x81 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDC5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E005B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udc5b |