U+23E0 "⏠" Top Tortoise Shell Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+23E0 "⏠" Top Tortoise Shell Bracket is a specialized typographic symbol belonging to the Miscellaneous Technical block, used primarily in computer and technical documentation to represent the upper segment of a tortoise shell bracket, a pairing delimiter that often encloses vertical lists or grouped elements in diagrams and notation systems. Its shape resembles the top half of a rounded, paired bracket, and it is typically matched with its counterpart, the Bottom Tortoise Shell Bracket (U+23E1), to visually span multiline content in contexts such as structured data or code comments. While not common in everyday text, it serves a niche role in certain programming languages, markup formats, and technical illustrations where clear, non-standard delimiters are needed to denote hierarchy or grouping without conflicting with standard parentheses or braces.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
⏠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
⏠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0x8F 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x23E0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000023E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u23e0 |
Unicode Properties