U+FE43 "﹃" Presentation Form for Vertical Left White Corner Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE43 "﹃" Presentation Form for Vertical Left White Corner Bracket is a typographic variant specifically designed for use in vertical text layouts, such as traditional Chinese or Japanese writing. It represents the left side of a white corner bracket shaped like a small, open square corner, and is intended to replace the standard left corner bracket (U+300C) when text is arranged in vertical columns rather than horizontally. This character ensures proper orientation and visual consistency within specialized typesetting systems, supporting legacy encoding standards like Chinese national standard (CNS) character sets and the Unicode CJK Compatibility Ideographs block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE43 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Presentation Form for Vertical Left White Corner Bracket |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Vertical Opening White 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+300E Left White Corner Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﹃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﹃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB9 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe43 |
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+300E Left White Corner Bracket |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "『" U+300E Left White 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 |