U+23AA "⎪" Curly Bracket Extension Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+23AA "⎪" Curly Bracket Extension is a graphic symbol used primarily in mathematical and technical notation to represent the vertical middle portion of a large curly brace that spans multiple lines of text. Rather than being a standalone punctuation mark, it functions as a building block for constructing tall brackets by stacking with other bracket extension and corner characters, such as U+23A7 for the top and U+23A9 for the bottom of a left brace. This character ensures that displayed braces align properly in multi-line equations or sets, maintaining visual continuity without gaps. It is part of the Miscellaneous Technical block and is often employed in plain text environments where formatting rich mathematical expressions without graphics is necessary.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
⎪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
⎪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0x8E 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x23AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000023AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u23aa |
Unicode Properties