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Technical information
| Symbol | [ | |
| Name | Left square bracket | |
| Unicode number | U+005B | |
| Category | ASCII Table6. ASCII punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character [, or U+005B, is known as the "Left Square Bracket". It is part of the "Basic Latin" block, which is the standard ASCII set of characters used in English and many other languages. This character falls under the "Punctuation, Open" category. Visually, it represents an opening or left-sided square bracket. Left Square Brackets are used in various contexts, including mathematics, where they often denote the inclusive start of an interval. In computer programming languages, they are typically used to denote the start of an array or list. They are also used in literature and linguistic notation for various purposes. As with other characters, the specific usage of the Left Square Bracket can depend on its context. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | [ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | [ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | [ | |
| URL Escape Code | %5B | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x5B | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 01011011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x005B | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000005B |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u005B" | |
| CSS Code | \005B | |
| JavaScript | "\u005B" | |
| Perl | \x{005B} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u005B" | |
| Python 3 | \u005B | |
| Ruby | \u{005B} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this [ in sentence and in bold like this [ and in italic like this [.
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Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>[</span>
span {
content: "\005B";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana