Left Square Bracket [
Symbol Meaning
Left Square Bracket. Basic Latin.
The symbol “Left Square Bracket” is included in the “ASCII punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
opening square bracket.
| Unicode Name | Left Square Bracket |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | [ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin |
| Unicode Subblock | ASCII punctuation and symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | Open |
| Bidi Paired Bracket | 005D |
| bmg | 005D |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 005B |
| Simple case change | 005B |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | 5B | 91 | 91 | 01011011 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 5B | 0 91 | 91 | 00000000 01011011 |
| UTF-16LE | 5B 00 | 91 0 | 23296 | 01011011 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 5B | 0 0 0 91 | 91 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 01011011 |
| UTF-32LE | 5B 00 00 00 | 91 0 0 0 | 1526726656 | 01011011 00000000 00000000 00000000 |
Related Characters
Left Square Bracket is part of collections: