U+2983 "⦃" Left White Curly Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⦃
U+2983 "⦃" Left White Curly Bracket is a typographical symbol classified under the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block, designed to function as a left-opening white or open brace variant. It is visually distinct from the standard curly bracket by its hollow, unfilled appearance, making it useful in mathematical notation and formal logic to denote set membership, grouping, or specialized syntactic structures where a lighter visual weight is desired. This character complements its paired counterpart, the Right White Curly Bracket (U+2984), and is often applied in academic typesetting, particularly in Z notation and other formal specification languages, to avoid confusion with ordinary braces.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2983 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Left White Curly Bracket |
| Block | Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B |
| General Category | Open Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "⦄" U+2984 Right White Curly Bracket |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type | Open |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket | "⦄" U+2984 Right White Curly Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⦃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⦃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xA6 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2983 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002983 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2983 |