U+FE37 "︷" Presentation Form for Vertical Left Curly Bracket Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FE37 "︷" Presentation Form for Vertical Left Curly Bracket is a typographic variant of the standard left curly bracket designed specifically for use in vertical writing systems, such as traditional Chinese, Japanese, or Mongolian script, where text flows from top to bottom rather than horizontally. It appears as a rotated or vertically oriented version of the curly bracket opening to the right side of the vertical text column, serving as a bracket or grouping symbol in vertical layout contexts like menus, titles, or mathematical notations adapted for vertical orientation. This character is part of a small set of presentation forms in Unicode that ensure proper visual alignment and legibility of punctuation and symbols when script direction changes from horizontal to vertical.

General Properties

Code Point U+FE37
Version Added 1.1
Name Presentation Form for Vertical Left Curly Bracket
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Vertical Opening Curly Bracket
Block CJK Compatibility Forms
General Category Open Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral
Decomposition Type Vertical
Decomposition Mapping "{" U+007B Left Curly Bracket

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ︷
HTML Hex Encoding ︷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB8 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFE37
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FE37
C/C++/Java Escape \ufe37

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Open Punctuation
East Asian Width Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "{" U+007B Left Curly Bracket
NFKC Simple Casefold "{" U+007B Left Curly Bracket
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Close