TOP HALF LEFT PARENTHESIS character

Name:

TOP HALF LEFT PARENTHESIS

Hex Number:

U+2E59

Decimal Number:

11865

HTML Entity (Dec):

⹙

HTML Entity (Hex):

⹙

Alternate Name:

Category:

Ps (Open Punctuation)

Bidi Class:

ON (Other Neutrals)

Mirrored:

Combining Class:

Unicode Block:

Supplemental Punctuation

Plane:

Plane Code:

BMP

Plane Description:

Basic Multilingual Plane

Plane Range:

0000-FFFF

Character Preview:

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TOP HALF LEFT PARENTHESIS is an opening punctuation mark (of a pair) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of TOP HALF LEFT PARENTHESIS is Other Neutrals (Neutral). It belongs to the neutrals. Whitespace and punctuation, which take on the directionality of the surrounding text..

The Other Neutral (ON) bidi class includes characters that do not have a strong directional preference and can appear in any text context without influencing the overall directionality. These characters include punctuation marks, symbols, and various other text elements that do not fit into more specific bidi classes.

Open Punctuation (Ps) refers to punctuation marks that are used to open a section of text, such as parentheses, brackets, and braces. These characters are paired with closing punctuation to enclose parts of text.

This character belongs to the Supplemental Punctuation block. Supplemental Punctuation is a Unicode block containing historic and specialized punctuation characters, including biblical editorial symbols, ancient Greek punctuation, and German dictionary marks..

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