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presentation form for vertical right square bracket

Vertical Right Square Bracket

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﹈ is the vertical square bracket form of the ordinary closing bracket ]; it closes the same kind of span in vertical East Asian text. You may encounter it in preserved text or when software keeps an exact character from an older East Asian encoding. Compatibility normalization can turn it into ], keeping the bracket role but losing the exact form.

Text symbol

What ﹈ means

It closes a square-bracketed span in vertical text.

﹈ is the vertical presentation of the ordinary closing square bracket, ]. In Japanese vertical typography, guidance also uses 〔〕 as a vertical variation of [ ]; those brackets are distinct from this separately encoded form of ].

Its bracket role stays the same; the exact presentation identity does not. Compatibility normalization can map ﹈ to ], so it is useful when the source or system must preserve this exact form.

Why is ﹈ encoded separately?

It preserves a vertical form in East Asian character sets.

Unicode's compatibility forms include characters from Taiwan's CNS 11643, a Chinese character encoding standard formally promulgated in 1986. They preserve compatibility with older East Asian encodings; ﹈ records a vertical display form, not a new punctuation meaning.

﹇ is its matching opening form. The two pair around text when a source preserves both vertical brackets.

Technical and archival: it marks a need to preserve an exact vertical glyph or legacy-encoding character.

For ordinary punctuation, follow the text's bracket convention; reserve ﹈ for data that needs the exact form.

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Don't confuse it with

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]
Right Square Bracket
The ordinary closing square bracket has the same role, but it is not this explicit vertical-form character.
〕
Right Tortoise Shell Bracket
This right tortoise-shell bracket belongs to 〔〕, a Japanese vertical-text alternative to [ ]; it is not the encoded vertical form of ].
⎵
Bottom Square Bracket
Unicode names this technical symbol BOTTOM SQUARE BRACKET; it is separate from this East Asian vertical presentation form.
︺
Presentation Form For Vertical Right Tortoise Shell Bracket
Vertical right tortoise-shell bracket: slanted corners where ﹈ has square ones.

Combination ideas

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A constructed vertical square-bracket pair around “文字” (“text”).
Vertical editor's note in square brackets.
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Questions people ask

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Why did ﹈ turn into ]?

Compatibility normalization may have changed it. Unicode maps this vertical form to the ordinary closing bracket, so the bracket role stays while the exact glyph identity is lost.

Should I use ﹈ in ordinary Japanese vertical text?

Usually no. Follow the text's bracket convention and let layout handle vertical presentation; reserve ﹈ for source data that requires the exact form.

How to type or find ﹈

Search it as
fe48 · u+fe48 · vertical bracket · Japanese vertical brackets · East Asian bracket · bracket glyph
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType FE48, then AltX to get ﹈.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “presentation form for vertical right square bracket”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType fe48, then Enter or Space.
HTML
﹈
CSS
\FE48
Character map
To enter ﹈ from a character map, search by its name or UFE48; exact search behavior depends on the editor.
Normalization check
Confirm that the stored character is still ﹈; compatibility normalization may convert it to ].
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
﹈
HTML hex
﹈
CSS content
content: "\FE48";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EF%B9%88
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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