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Glyph for U+FE5B
Source: Noto CJK

U+FE5B Small Left Curly Bracket

U+FE5B was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+FE50 to U+FE6F Small Form Variants in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

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

The glyph is a small version of the glyph Glyph for U+007B Left Curly Bracket. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Glyph for U+FE5C Small Right Curly Bracket. U+FE5B prohibits a line break after it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the (...) marks and in American English the [...] marks.

Other minor bracket shapes exist, such as (for example) slash or diagonal brackets used by linguists to enclose phonemes.

Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the directionality of the context.

In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets nest, with segments of bracketed material containing embedded within them other further bracketed sub-segments. The number of opening brackets matches the number of closing brackets in such cases.

Various forms of brackets are used in mathematics, with specific mathematical meanings, often for denoting specific mathematical functions and subformulas.

Representations

System Representation
65115
UTF-8 EF B9 9B
UTF-16 FE 5B
UTF-32 00 00 FE 5B
URL-Quoted %EF%B9%9B
HTML hex reference ﹛
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ï¹›
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) A1 A1
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) A1 A1
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) A1 A1
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) A9 78
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) A9 78
Adobe Glyph List braceleftsmall

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) SMALL LEFT CURLY BRACKET
Unicode 1 Name (na1) SMALL OPENING CURLY BRACKET
Block (blk) Small Form Variants
General Category (gc) Open Punctuation
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) small
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+007B Left Curly Bracket
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+FE5B Small Left Curly Bracket
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+FE5B Small Left Curly Bracket
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+FE5B Small Left Curly Bracket
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+FE5B Small Left Curly Bracket
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+FE5B Small Left Curly Bracket
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+FE5B Small Left Curly Bracket
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+FE5B Small Left Curly 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) Glyph for U+FE5B Small Left Curly 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) Glyph for U+007B Left Curly Bracket
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+007B Left Curly Bracket
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
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) Glyph for U+FE5C Small Right Curly Bracket
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+FE5C Small Right Curly Bracket
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) Open
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Open Punctuation
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+FE5B Small Left Curly Bracket
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) Tr