U+FE40 "﹀" Presentation Form for Vertical Right Angle Bracket Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FE40 "﹀" Presentation Form for Vertical Right Angle Bracket is a typographic variant of the standard right angle bracket (U+3009) specifically designed for use in vertical writing systems, such as traditional Chinese or Japanese text. This character belongs to the CJK Compatibility Forms block and serves as a presentation form that ensures the bracket appears rotated or adjusted to align correctly with the vertical orientation of the surrounding characters, rather than the usual horizontal layout. It is primarily intended for compatibility with legacy encoding standards and is less commonly used in modern digital typography, where contextual shaping often handles such orientation automatically.

General Properties

Code Point U+FE40
Version Added 1.1
Name Presentation Form for Vertical Right Angle Bracket
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Vertical Closing Angle Bracket
Block CJK Compatibility Forms
General Category Close Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral
Decomposition Type Vertical
Decomposition Mapping "〉" U+3009 Right Angle Bracket

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﹀
HTML Hex Encoding ﹀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB9 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFE40
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FE40
C/C++/Java Escape \ufe40

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+3009 Right Angle Bracket
NFKC Simple Casefold "〉" U+3009 Right Angle 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