U+FE18 "︘" Presentation Form for Vertical Right White Lenticular Brakcet Unicode Character

U+FE18 "︘" Presentation Form for Vertical Right White Lenticular Brakcet is a CJK compatibility ideograph used primarily in vertical East Asian typography to represent the right-side closing bracket of a pair of white lenticular brackets, which are often employed to enclose book titles, headings, or annotations in traditional Chinese and Japanese scripts. This character is part of a set of presentation forms that allow for proper rendering in vertical text layout, where standard brackets might otherwise appear rotated or misaligned. The "white" in its name refers to the hollow or outlined appearance of the bracket strokes, distinguishing it from solid or filled bracket forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE18
Version Added	4.1
Name	Presentation Form for Vertical Right White Lenticular Brakcet
Block	Vertical Forms
General Category	Close Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral
Decomposition Type	Vertical
Decomposition Mapping	"〗" U+3017 Right White Lenticular Bracket
Alias	PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET (correction)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	︘
HTML Hex Encoding	︘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB8 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE18
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE18
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe18

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Close Punctuation
East Asian Width	Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"〗" U+3017 Right White Lenticular Bracket
NFKC Simple Casefold	"〗" U+3017 Right 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