Unicode Character "｟" (U+FF5F)

The character ｟ (Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF5F. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (March, 2002). It is HTML encoded as ｟. Its mirrored character is ｠ (U+FF60).

Main Unicode Properties

Name Fullwidth Left White Parenthesis
Unicode Codepoint U+FF5F
Unicode Version 3.2 (March, 2002)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? Yes
Mirrored character ｠ (U+FF60)

Other Unicode Data

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

U+FF5F Conversion

HTML (decimal) ｟
HTML (hex) ｟
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BD%9F
CSS \00FF5F
JavaScript, JSON \uFF5F
C, C++, Java \uFF5F
Python \uFF5F
Rust \u{FF5F}
Ruby \uFF5F

How to type "｟"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBD 0x9F
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF5F
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF5F

References