U+FE3F "︿" Presentation Form for Vertical Left Angle Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FE3F "︿" Presentation Form for Vertical Left Angle Bracket is a compatibility ideographic punctuation mark used specifically in vertical text layouts, where standard punctuation and brackets are rotated to fit the flow of East Asian scripts such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This character represents the left angle bracket variant, typically rendered as a small upward pointing chevron or angle, and is part of the CJK Compatibility Forms block, intended to preserve the appearance of legacy character sets when text is displayed vertically rather than horizontally. Its primary function is typographic, ensuring that the bracket maintains its proper orientation and legibility within vertical writing systems, though in modern digital environments its usage has largely been superseded by automatic glyph rotation or Unicode's vertical presentation variants.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
︿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
︿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xB8 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFE3F |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FE3F |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufe3f |
Unicode Properties