Medium Flattened Left Parenthesis Ornament ❪
Symbol Meaning
Parenthesis is used in writing to introduce explanations, comments, additions, and especially detachment constructions. According to stylistics, detachment is usually a word or a phrase that interrupts the original utterance in order to introduce some extra information. Due to the pause and stress that detachment creates, the text gains more authentic touch of human speech.
Apart from that, parenthesis may convey the author's point of view, sarcasm, contemplation, and side notes.
The symbol didn't become a punctuation mark right away. At first, it appeared in mathematics and logic. Then it started to be used in science, and only after that it got involved in typography.
The middle flattened left bracket is used in the same way as any other semicircular operator type bracket. It is usually called the opening one and is used together with the closing one – right ❫.
The symbol “Medium Flattened Left Parenthesis Ornament” is included in the “Ornamental brackets” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 3.2 in 2002.
| Unicode Name | Medium Flattened Left Parenthesis Ornament |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Ornamental brackets |
| Unicode Version | 3.2 (2002) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | Open |
| Bidi Paired Bracket | 276B |
| bmg | 276B |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 276A |
| Simple case change | 276A |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D AA | 226 157 170 | 14851498 | 11100010 10011101 10101010 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 6A | 39 106 | 10090 | 00100111 01101010 |
| UTF-16LE | 6A 27 | 106 39 | 27175 | 01101010 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 6A | 0 0 39 106 | 10090 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01101010 |
| UTF-32LE | 6A 27 00 00 | 106 39 0 0 | 1780940800 | 01101010 00100111 00000000 00000000 |