Left Parenthesis Lower Hook

U+239D

About Left Parenthesis Lower Hook

Left Parenthesis Lower Hook is the Unicode character ⎝ at codepoint U+239D in the Miscellaneous Technical block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Left Parenthesis Lower Hook

To use the Left Parenthesis Lower Hook symbol (⎝) in HTML, insert the entity ⎝ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⎝ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\239D';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u239D' evaluates to ⎝. In Python source, write '\u239D'.

The character encodes to E2 8E 9D as UTF-8 bytes and 239D as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9117.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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