U+FE17 "︗" Presentation Form for Vertical Left White Lenticular Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE17 "︗" Presentation Form for Vertical Left White Lenticular Bracket is a typographic glyph used in East Asian text layout, specifically designed for vertical writing systems where it functions as the left half of a white lenticular bracket. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility Forms block and serves as a presentation form that pairs with its right counterpart, U+FE18, to enclose text or annotations in a seamless vertical orientation. Its primary purpose is to provide proper visual alignment and spacing in traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean documents, ensuring that the bracket appears correctly rotated and positioned when text flows from top to bottom rather than left to right.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE17 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Presentation Form for Vertical Left White Lenticular Bracket |
| Block | Vertical Forms |
| General Category | Open Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Vertical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "〖" U+3016 Left White Lenticular Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe17 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Open Punctuation |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "〖" U+3016 Left White Lenticular Bracket |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "〖" U+3016 Left White Lenticular Bracket |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Close |