U+FD3E "﴾" Ornate Left Parenthesis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
﴾
U+FD3E "﴾" Ornate Left Parenthesis is a decorative typographic symbol used primarily in Arabic script and Quranic orthography to denote the beginning of a verse or a section of text, often serving as a stylistic marker that pairs with its counterpart U+FD3F, the Ornate Right Parenthesis. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, where it is employed in religious or formal calligraphic contexts to enhance the visual structure of manuscripts without altering the textual meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD3E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ornate Left Parenthesis |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Close Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﴾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﴾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB4 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD3E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd3e |
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 | Close Punctuation |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Arabic Nko |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Close |