U+23B0 "⎰" Upper Left or Lower Right Curly Bracket Section Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⎰
U+23B0 "⎰" Upper Left or Lower Right Curly Bracket Section is a typographical symbol used to represent the upper left or lower right portion of a large curly brace, commonly employed in mathematical notation for spanning multiple lines of a matrix, system of equations, or piecewise function. It is part of the Miscellaneous Technical block and is typically paired with its counterpart U+23B1 to form a complete vertical, scalable brace set. Visually, it appears as a distinct angled bracket segment with a curved hook, facilitating precise alignment in technical documents and typesetting systems like LaTeX.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+23B0 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Upper Left or Lower Right Curly Bracket Section |
| 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 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x23B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000023B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u23b0 |
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 |