| Unicode Character 'LEFT SQUARE BRACKET' (U+005B) |    | 
| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | LEFT SQUARE BRACKET | 
| Block | Basic Latin | 
| Category | Punctuation, Open [Ps] | 
| Combine | 0 | 
| BIDI | Other Neutrals [ON] | 
| Mirror | Y | 
| Old name | OPENING SQUARE BRACKET | 
| Index entries | BRACKET, LEFT SQUARE LEFT SQUARE BRACKET SQUARE BRACKET, LEFT square bracket, opening opening square bracket bracket, opening square | 
| Comments | opening square bracket (1.0) other bracket characters: U+27E6-U+27EB, U+2983-U+2998, U+3008-U+301B | 
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) | 
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | [ | 
| HTML Entity (hex) | [ | 
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +005B Alt 091 Alt 91 | 
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x5B (5b) | 
| UTF-8 (binary) | 01011011 | 
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x005B (005b) | 
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 91 | 
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x0000005B (005b) | 
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 91 | 
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u005B" | 
| Python source code | u"\u005B" | 
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| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() | [ | 
| string.toLowerCase() | [ | 
| Character.UnicodeBlock | BASIC_LATIN | 
| Character.charCount() | 1 | 
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13] | 
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 | 
| Character.getType() | 21 | 
| Character.isDefined() | Yes | 
| Character.isDigit() | No | 
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | No | 
| Character.isISOControl() | No | 
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | No | 
| Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() | No | 
| Character.isLetter() | No | 
| Character.isLetterOrDigit() | No | 
| Character.isLowerCase() | No | 
| Character.isMirrored() | Yes | 
| Character.isSpaceChar() | No | 
| Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() | No | 
| Character.isTitleCase() | No | 
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() | No | 
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No | 
| Character.isUpperCase() | No | 
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes | 
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |