Left Square Bracket
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 91 on the numeric keypad to insert left square bracket.
- Alt code
- Alt+91
- HTML entity
- [
- Unicode
- U+005B
About this symbol
Square brackets mark words added by an editor inside a quotation, such as [sic] or a word filled in for clarity. In computing they hold lists and the positions of items in them.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LEFT SQUARE BRACKET
- Also called
- Opening square bracket (1.0)
- Type
- Opening bracket
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.