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U+2985 CHARACTER

LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS

Quick Facts

Unicode Name LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS
Code Point U+2985
Decimal Value 10629
General Category Open Punctuation (Ps) →
Unicode Block Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 3.2 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 A6 85
UTF-16 Code Unit 2985
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002985
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 29 85 LE: 85 29
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 29 85 LE: 85 29 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ⦅
HTML Hexadecimal ⦅
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \002985
JavaScript (ES6) \u2985
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2985
JSON Escape \u2985
Python \u2985
PHP "\u{2985}"
Java "\u2985"
C / C++ "\u2985"
Rust '\u{2985}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%A6%85

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ON — Other Neutral
Bidi Mirrored Yes (Mirrored in RTL contexts)

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+2985 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
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Context: A ⦅ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
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Context: A ⦅ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
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Context: A ⦅ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
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Context: A ⦅ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+2985

Related Characters & Collections

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Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS symbol library.
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