Yi radical shy (cute bracket)

Meaning and uses

A curved character from the Yi script of southwest China that looks like a soft opening bracket. Paired with ꒱, it frames cute text and faces, as in ꒰ hello ꒱.

Unicode details

꒰ is the Unicode character named YI RADICAL SHY, code point U+A4B0, in the Yi Radicals block. It was added in Unicode 3.0 in 1999, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

It comes from the Yi Radicals block, which some fonts leave out, so a few older devices may show an empty box.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ꒰

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type A4B0 and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ꒰.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “yi radical shy”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then a4b0, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ꒰. In a CSS content property, use "\A4B0".