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U+3014 CHARACTER

LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET

Quick Facts

Unicode Name LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET
Code Point U+3014
Decimal Value 12308
General Category Open Punctuation (Ps) →
Unicode Block CJK Symbols and Punctuation →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E3 80 94
UTF-16 Code Unit 3014
UTF-32 4 bytes 00003014
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 30 14 LE: 14 30
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 30 14 LE: 14 30 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal 〔
HTML Hexadecimal 〔
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \003014
JavaScript (ES6) \u3014
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u3014
JSON Escape \u3014
Python \u3014
PHP "\u{3014}"
Java "\u3014"
C / C++ "\u3014"
Rust '\u{3014}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E3%80%94

Normalization & Decomposition

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

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored Yes (Mirrored in RTL contexts)

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+3014 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

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

Names & Aliases

Official Name LEFT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET

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

Identifier U+3014

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