U+FE38 "︸" Presentation Form for Vertical Right Curly Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE38 "︸" Presentation Form for Vertical Right Curly Bracket is a typographic variant used specifically in vertical text layouts, such as traditional Chinese, Japanese, or Korean writing, where characters are arranged top to bottom rather than left to right. It represents the right side of a curly brace when the entire brace must be rotated to align with the vertical flow of the text, enclosing contiguous content on its left side. This compatibility character originates from the Unicode block for CJK Compatibility Forms and is intended to be displayed as a mirrored or rotated version of the standard closing curly bracket, ensuring correct visual orientation in vertical typesetting systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE38 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Presentation Form for Vertical Right Curly Bracket |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Vertical Closing Curly Bracket |
| Block | CJK Compatibility Forms |
| General Category | Close Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Vertical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "}" U+007D Right Curly Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe38 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Close Punctuation |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "}" U+007D Right Curly Bracket |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "}" U+007D Right 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 |