U+23DE "⏞" Top Curly Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⏞
U+23DE "⏞" Top Curly Bracket is a typographic symbol used primarily in mathematical notation, technical diagrams, and text annotation to visually group or bracket a span of content from above. It appears as a horizontal, upward-oriented curly brace, often paired with its counterpart the Bottom Curly Bracket (U+23DF) in applications such as equation editors, programming documentation, or textual explanations where a range of characters or numbers needs to be summarized or labeled without interrupting the flow of the main text. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent rendering across different platforms and fonts, supporting clear communication in fields like mathematics, music notation, and markup languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+23DE |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Top Curly Bracket |
| 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 0x8F 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x23DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000023DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u23de |
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 |