Source: Noto Sans

U+2E04 Left Dotted Substitution Bracket

U+2E04 was added in Unicode version 4.1 in 2005. It belongs to the block U+2E00 to U+2E7F Supplemental Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Initial Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Right Dotted Substitution Bracket. U+2E04 prohibits a line break around it.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	11780
UTF-8	E2 B8 84
UTF-16	2E 04
UTF-32	00 00 2E 04
URL-Quoted	%E2%B8%84
HTML hex reference	⸄
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	â¸„
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 38 F1 34

Related Characters

Right Dotted Substitution Bracket

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	4.1 (2005)
Unicode Name (na)	LEFT DOTTED SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
General Category (gc)	Initial Punctuation
Script (sc)	Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
Case Folding (cf)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✔
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✘
ID Start (IDS)	✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Close
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Other
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✘
XID Start (XIDS)	✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Mirrored Glyph (bmg)	Right Dotted Substitution Bracket
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Quotation
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Left Dotted Substitution Bracket
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R