U+FE47 "﹇" Presentation Form for Vertical Left Square Bracket Unicode Character

U+FE47 "﹇" Presentation Form for Vertical Left Square Bracket is a typographic glyph used primarily in East Asian vertical writing systems, where text is arranged in columns from top to bottom rather than horizontally. It serves as the vertical counterpart to the standard left square bracket, designed to maintain proper orientation and visual consistency when surrounding text or numbers in vertical layout. This character belongs to the CJK Compatibility Forms block, which provides specialized shapes for characters that need to be rotated or adjusted for vertical typesetting, ensuring that brackets appear correctly aligned with the vertical flow of text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE47
Version Added	4.0
Name	Presentation Form for Vertical Left Square Bracket
Block	CJK Compatibility Forms
General Category	Open Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral
Decomposition Type	Vertical
Decomposition Mapping	"[" U+005B Left Square Bracket

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	﹇
HTML Hex Encoding	﹇
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE47
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE47
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe47

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+005B Left Square Bracket
NFKC Simple Casefold	"[" U+005B Left Square 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