U+3016 "〖" Left White Lenticular Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+3016 "〖" Left White Lenticular Bracket is a punctuation mark used in East Asian typography, particularly in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts, where it often pairs with its mirror image, U+3017 "〗" Right White Lenticular Bracket, to enclose annotations, comments, or supplementary information. Its design features a white (hollow) lenticular, or lens shaped, form that distinguishes it from solid bracket variants, and it is primarily employed in vertical writing systems or as a decorative alternative to standard brackets in formal or literary contexts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+3016
Name
Left White Lenticular Bracket
Unicode 1.0 Name
Opening White Lenticular Bracket
Mirrored Character
Bidirectional Paired Bracket
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
〖
HTML Hex Encoding
〖
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x80 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0x3016
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00003016
C/C++/Java Escape
\u3016
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana Yi