LEFT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET·U+301A

Character Information

Code Point
U+301A
HEX
301A
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Open Punctuation

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E3 80 9A
11100011 10000000 10011010
UTF16 (big Endian)
30 1A
00110000 00011010
UTF16 (little Endian)
1A 30
00011010 00110000
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 30 1A
00000000 00000000 00110000 00011010
UTF32 (little Endian)
1A 30 00 00
00011010 00110000 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
〚
URI Encoded
%E3%80%9A

Description

The Unicode character U+301A, known as the Left White Square Bracket, is a special symbol primarily used in digital text for various purposes. It serves as a delimiter or separator, often seen at the beginning of a segment or block of text. This character is widely employed in programming languages, markup languages like HTML, and other digital contexts to create structured text, such as enclosing code blocks or specifying sections within data sets. The Left White Square Bracket's role in digital text demonstrates its importance in maintaining the clarity and organization of information within various technological platforms.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 12314 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.

  1. Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout

    The character has the Unicode code point U+301A. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 3 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of 0x0800 to 0xffff.

    Therefore we know that the UTF-8 encoding will be done over 16 bits within the final 24 bits and that it will have the format: 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx
    Where the x are the payload bits.

    UTF-8 Encoding bit layout by codepoint range
    Codepoint RangeBytesBit patternPayload length
    U+0000 - U+007F10xxxxxxx7 bits
    U+0080 - U+07FF2110xxxxx 10xxxxxx11 bits
    U+0800 - U+FFFF31110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx16 bits
    U+10000 - U+10FFFF411110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx21 bits
  2. Step 2: Obtain the payload bits:

    Convert the hexadecimal code point U+301A to binary: 00110000 00011010. Those are the payload bits.

  3. Step 3: Fill in the bits to match the bit pattern:

    Obtain the final bytes by arranging the paylod bits to match the bit layout:
    11100011 10000000 10011010