U+FF62 "｢" Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket Unicode Character

U+FF62 "｢" Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket is a typographic symbol used primarily in East Asian writing systems, particularly in Japanese, where it serves as a halfwidth version of the fullwidth left corner bracket "「". This character occupies half the typical width of a fullwidth CJK character, making it compatible with monospaced fonts or layouts for Latin text, and it is commonly employed in contexts such as quotation marks, text processing, and legacy computing systems that require a compact representation of the bracket without sacrificing its functional role in marking the start of a quotation or embedded phrase.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FF62
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket
Unicode 1.0 Name	Halfwidth Opening Corner Bracket
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Open Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral
Mirrored	Yes
Mirrored Character	"｣" U+FF63 Halfwidth Right Corner Bracket
Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type	Open
Bidirectional Paired Bracket	"｣" U+FF63 Halfwidth Right Corner Bracket
Decomposition Type	Narrow
Decomposition Mapping	"「" U+300C Left Corner Bracket

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	｢
HTML Hex Encoding	｢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBD 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFF62
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FF62
C/C++/Java Escape	\uff62

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Open Punctuation
East Asian Width	Halfwidth
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"「" U+300C Left Corner Bracket
NFKC Simple Casefold	"「" U+300C Left Corner Bracket
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana Yi
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Quotation Mark	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Close