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Left White Parenthesis HTML entity ⦅
⦅ is the HTML entity for Left White Parenthesis ⦅ (U+2985). Copy ⦅, ⦅ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
⦅- Code point
- U+2985
- Unicode name
- LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS
- Block
- Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
- Category
- Open punctuation (Ps)
- Since
- Unicode 3.2
- Defined in
- HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ⦅Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ⦅Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ⦅Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\2985";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2985"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2985"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%A6%85Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 A6 853 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 29851 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
⦅ writes U+2985 (Left White Parenthesis), an opening bracket from the Unicode Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block, encoded since Unicode 3.2. Specialist notation like this usually belongs in MathML, which positions it correctly; the entity is for occasional use in running text.
The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).