U+FF62 · Opening punctuation
Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket Symbol ｢
｢ is halfwidth left corner bracket, U+FF62. Unicode records it as a compatibility form of 「 (narrow form). It was added in Unicode 1.1, and Unicode files it under Opening punctuation.
Also known as
Unicode 1.0 called this character halfwidth opening corner bracket. The standard renamed it later, but documents, fonts and font-editing tools from that era still use the old name.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+FF62 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ｢ | |
| HTML decimal | ｢ | |
| CSS | \FF62 | |
| JavaScript | \u{FF62} | |
| Python | \U0000FF62 | |
| Java / C# | \uFF62 | |
| Rust | \u{ff62} | |
| Swift | \u{FF62} | |
| PHP | \u{FF62} | |
| URL encoded | %EF%BD%A2 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | EF BD A2 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | FF62 | |
| Base64 | 772i | |
| Decimal | 65378 | |
| Decomposes to | 「 (narrow form) | |
| Category | Opening punctuation (Ps) | |
| Introduced | Unicode 1.1 | |
Will ｢ survive being pasted?
- Normalisation. No. Anything that applies NFKC — search indexes, usernames, domain names, programming identifiers — rewrites ｢ as
「. Safe for display, not for storage. - Legacy encodings. ｢ is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
- Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.
Other bracket characters
Unicode names 24 characters ending in “bracket”. They differ by direction, weight or decoration rather than by meaning.
Nearby in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Latin characters at the width of a CJK ideograph, and katakana at half width — a compatibility block for legacy East Asian encodings. Fullwidth text is often used online for a spaced-out aesthetic; it normalises straight back to ASCII.
How to type ｢
| Windows | Type FF62 then press Alt+X |
|---|---|
| macOS | Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space, then search for “halfwidth left corner bracket” |
| Linux | Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type ff62, press Enter |
| HTML | ｢ |
About Unicode’s Opening punctuation category
This is an opening bracket. Editors that highlight matching pairs, and bidirectional text algorithms, both key off this category rather than off the glyph.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I type the ｢ halfwidth left corner bracket symbol?
- On Windows, type FF62 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then ff62. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
- What is the code for ｢?
- Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket is U+FF62. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
- Will ｢ survive being pasted anywhere?
- Not always. Halfwidth Left Corner Bracket is a compatibility character: any system that applies Unicode NFKC normalisation — search indexes, usernames, identifiers — replaces it with 「. Use it for display, not where text is normalised.