U+FE35 "︵" Presentation Form for Vertical Left Parenthesis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE35 "︵" Presentation Form for Vertical Left Parenthesis is a typographic variant of the standard left parenthesis, specifically designed for use in vertical writing systems, often found in East Asian scripts like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It serves as an opening bracket in vertically oriented text, where characters are arranged top to bottom, and it appears rotated or mirrored relative to its horizontal counterpart to maintain readability and proper visual alignment within the column. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility Forms block, which provides these specialized glyphs to support traditional vertical typesetting, ensuring that parentheses and other paired symbols curve inward correctly along the vertical axis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE35 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Presentation Form for Vertical Left Parenthesis |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Vertical Opening Parenthesis |
| Block | CJK Compatibility Forms |
| General Category | Open Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Vertical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE35 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE35 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe35 |
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+0028 Left Parenthesis |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis |
| 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 |