Unicode character information
Left square bracket
Displayed on your computer as: [
(if the character is not rendered properly, you may not have the appropriate fonts)
Alternative names:
- Bracket, left square
- bracket, opening square
- Left square bracket
- opening square bracket
- Square bracket, left
- square bracket, opening
Codepoint (decimal): 91
In unicode block: Basic Latin
Html entities:
[ or [Character input:
There is no universal input system for Unicode characters. But you can use the system specific input methods below.| Windows: | Hold down Alt and press + on the numeric keyboard. Type: 005B and release Alt. A registry key needs to be enabled for this to work. See Unicode input (wikipedia) for more details. | |
| Linux: | Hold down Crtl and ⇧ Shift and type U005B. Now press ↵ Enter and release Crtl and ⇧ Shift. |
Other Infos:
General category: Ps (Open_Punctuation): An opening punctuation mark (of a pair).Bidirectional class is: ON (Other_Neutral): Most other symbols and punctuation marks.
Canocial combining class is: 0 (Not_Reordered): Spacing and enclosing marks; also many vowel and consonant signs, even if nonspacing.