U+FE3B "" Presentation Form for Vertical Left Black Lenticular Bracket Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+FE3B "" Presentation Form for Vertical Left Black Lenticular Bracket is a typographic glyph used primarily in East Asian scripts, specifically designed to serve as the left half of a black lenticular bracket when text is arranged in a vertical writing direction. Unlike its standard horizontal counterpart, this presentation form is part of the CJK Compatibility block and is intended to harmonize with vertical text lines, maintaining the bracket's visual structure as a rounded, parenthesis-like shape that opens to the right. It is most commonly employed in traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean documents, such as in book titles or official forms, to denote enclosed content without disrupting the flow of vertical composition.

General Properties

Code Point
U+FE3B
Name
Presentation Form for Vertical Left Black Lenticular Bracket
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Vertical Opening Black Lenticular Bracket

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
︻
HTML Hex Encoding
︻
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB8 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFE3B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FE3B
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufe3b