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

Code Point U+23AD
Version Added 3.2
Name Right Curly Bracket Lower Hook
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 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x23AD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000023AD
C/C++/Java Escape \u23ad

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