Left Square Bracket Opening Square Bracket is the Unicode character [ at codepoint U+005B in the Basic Latin block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Left Square Bracket Opening Square Bracket
To use the Left Square Bracket Opening Square Bracket 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: '\5B';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u005B' evaluates to [. In Python source, write '\u005B'.
The character encodes to 5B as UTF-8 bytes and 005B as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 91.
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.