U+23AD "⎭" Right Curly Bracket Lower Hook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+23AD "⎭" Right Curly Bracket Lower Hook is a specialized typographic glyph belonging to the Miscellaneous Technical block, designed to represent the lower, hook-like portion of a right curly bracket for use in mathematical or technical notation, particularly when constructing large, multi-line delimiters in typesetting systems like TeX or plain text. Unlike the standard closing curly brace "}", which is a single unified symbol, this character serves as a building block to assemble tall or resizable brackets by pairing it with other components such as the upper hook and extension pieces, allowing for precise visual alignment in complex equations or diagrams. Its existence highlights the need for granular control over bracket shapes in technical documentation, where standard ASCII symbols may prove insufficient for representing nested or vertically extended structures.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
⎭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
⎭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0x8E 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x23AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000023AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u23ad |
Unicode Properties