U+23A8 "⎨" Left Curly Bracket Middle Piece Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⎨
U+23A8 "⎨" Left Curly Bracket Middle Piece is a typographical symbol used primarily in mathematical notation and typesetting to represent the central, vertical segment of a large, multi-line left curly brace. Unlike the standard single-line curly bracket, this character is part of a set of bracket extension pieces that allow a brace to span multiple rows of text or equations, often seen in cases like piecewise functions or system definitions. It connects seamlessly with the top and bottom pieces of the bracket to form a continuous, scalable shape, and is typically used in plain text or systems that require precise ASCII or Unicode representation of complex mathematical expressions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+23A8 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Left Curly Bracket Middle Piece |
| Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| General Category | Math Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⎨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⎨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x8E 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x23A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000023A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u23a8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Math | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |