U+FD3F "﴿" Ornate Right Parenthesis Unicode Character

U+FD3F "﴿" Ornate Right Parenthesis is a typographic symbol belonging to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed for use in decorative or formal Arabic script contexts, particularly in Quranic or religious texts. It appears as an elaborate, curled right parenthesis, often paired with its counterpart, U+FD3E Ornate Left Parenthesis, to enclose verses, annotations, or headings in a stylized manner. Unlike standard parentheses, this ornate variant adds an artistic flourish that reflects calligraphic traditions, and its encoding ensures that these ornamental brackets remain semantically distinct and correctly rendered in digital environments where classical Arabic typography is preserved.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD3F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Ornate Right Parenthesis
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Open Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	﴿
HTML Hex Encoding	﴿
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD3F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD3F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd3f

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	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