U+FF5F

FULLWIDTH LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS

Ps — Open Punctuation
Common
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
65375

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent FULLWIDTH LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 EF BD 9F 239 189 159 3
UTF-16 LE 5F FF 95 255 2
UTF-16 BE FF 5F 255 95 2
UTF-32 LE 5F FF 00 00 95 255 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 FF 5F 0 0 255 95 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS not supported
EUC-JP not supported
GBK not supported
Big5 not supported

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
⦅
⦅
\FF5F
\uFF5F
%EF%BD%9F
\uff5f
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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1
EF
·
Byte 2
1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1
BD
·
Byte 3
1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
9F
UTF-8: EF BD 9F · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+FF5F

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 3.2
ON — Other Neutral
Yes — has a mirrored counterpart in RTL context

Compatibility decomposition (wide) — the sequence below represents the same underlying meaning in a simpler form.

Nearby Characters in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms