U+23E1 "⏡" Bottom Tortoise Shell Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⏡
U+23E1 "⏡" Bottom Tortoise Shell Bracket is a typographical symbol belonging to the Miscellaneous Technical block, designed as the lower half of a pair of tortoise shell brackets used in Chinese and Japanese punctuation for enclosing supplementary text or annotations. This character typically pairs with its top counterpart, U+23E0, to form a complete bracket shape that resembles a stylized tortoise shell, and it falls within the range of characters intended for use in technical notation and specialized typesetting rather than common writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+23E1 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Bottom Tortoise Shell 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 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x23E1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000023E1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u23e1 |
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 |