U+3010 "【" Left Black Lenticular Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+3010 "【" Left Black Lenticular Bracket is a typographic symbol primarily used in East Asian scripts, most notably in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text, to enclose or highlight supplementary information, such as titles, headings, or annotations. Its distinctive shape features heavy, rounded ends that resemble a black lentil or pill, giving it a bold and visually clear appearance compared to standard brackets. In practice, it often pairs with its counterpart U+3011 "】" Right Black Lenticular Bracket to form sets that mark off comments, quotations, or metadata in contexts like dictionaries, legal documents, or digital formatting, and it is also commonly seen in manga or other media for emphasis or stylistic effect.
General Properties
Code Point
U+3010
Name
Left Black Lenticular Bracket
Unicode 1.0 Name
Opening Black Lenticular Bracket
Mirrored Character
Bidirectional Paired Bracket
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
【
HTML Hex Encoding
【
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x80 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding
0x3010
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00003010
C/C++/Java Escape
\u3010
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana Yi