Unicode Character "｛" (U+FF5B)

The character ｛ (FULLWIDTH LEFT CURLY BRACKET) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF5B. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ｛. Its mirrored character is ｝ (U+FF5D).

Main Unicode Properties

Name FULLWIDTH LEFT CURLY BRACKET
Unicode Codepoint U+FF5B
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? Yes
Mirrored character ｝ (U+FF5D)

Other Unicode Data

Category Open Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FF5B Conversion

HTML (decimal) ｛
HTML (hex) ｛
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BD%9B
CSS \FF5B
JavaScript \u{FF5B}
JSON \uFF5B
C, C++ \U0000FF5B
Java \uFF5B
Python \U0000FF5B
Rust \u{FF5B}
Ruby \u{FF5B}

How to type "｛"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F 5 B. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F 5 B. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBD 0x9B
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF5B
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF5B

References