Find more about the U+005B Unicode character below, including its properties, usage, and encoding details.
| Codepoint | U+005B |
|---|---|
| Name | Left Square Bracket |
| Alias | opening square bracket (1.0) |
| Category | Open Punctuation (Ps) |
| Script | Common |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| Plane | Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Numeric Character Reference | [ |
| Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference | [ |
| HTML Named Character Reference (HTML Named Entity) | [[ |
| CSS Character Reference (CSS Escape Code) | \005B |
| Mirrored Character | ] U+005D |
| Links | Plain https://everychar.com/code/U+005BMarkdown [U+005B](https://everychar.com/code/U+005B) |
| Notes | Other bracket characters: 27E6-27EB, 2983-2998, 3008-301B. |