U+FE41 "﹁" Presentation Form for Vertical Left Corner Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
﹁
U+FE41 "﹁" Presentation Form for Vertical Left Corner Bracket is a typographic glyph used in East Asian writing systems, primarily Chinese and Japanese, to represent the left side of a corner bracket when text is laid out in vertical lines. As a presentation form, it is specifically designed for vertical text orientation, distinguishing it from its horizontal counterpart, and it often functions as a quotation mark or bracket in traditional and formal documents. This character is part of the CJK Compatibility Forms block, which provides these specialized variants to ensure correct visual rendering in complex layouts, and it typically pairs with U+FE42 "﹂" for the right corner bracket in vertical writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE41 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Presentation Form for Vertical Left Corner Bracket |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Vertical Opening Corner Bracket |
| Block | CJK Compatibility Forms |
| General Category | Open Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Vertical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "「" U+300C Left Corner Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﹁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﹁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB9 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE41 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe41 |
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+300C Left Corner Bracket |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "「" U+300C Left Corner Bracket |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Quotation Mark | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Close |