Unicode Character "⎜" (U+239C)

The character ⎜ (Left Parenthesis Extension) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+239C. It is encoded in the Miscellaneous Technical block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (March, 2002). It is HTML encoded as ⎜.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Left Parenthesis Extension
Unicode Codepoint U+239C
Unicode Version 3.2 (March, 2002)
Block Miscellaneous Technical
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Math Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+239C Conversion

HTML (decimal) ⎜
HTML (hex) ⎜
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%8E%9C
CSS \00239C
JavaScript, JSON \u239C
C, C++, Java \u239C
Python \u239C
Rust \u{239C}
Ruby \u239C

How to type "⎜"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 3 9 C. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 3 9 C. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ⎜
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ⎜
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ⎜
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x8E 0x9C
UTF-16 (hex) 0x239C
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000239C

References