U+FE5B "﹛" Small Left Curly Bracket Unicode Character

U+FE5B "﹛" Small Left Curly Bracket is a typographic variant of the standard left curly bracket, designed as a narrower or smaller form for use in contexts where space is limited or where a more delicate appearance is desired. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Forms block, which includes small forms of various punctuation marks and symbols tailored for compatibility with East Asian text layouts, particularly in vertical writing or alongside complex character grids. This character primarily serves as an opening brace in mathematical notation, programming, or textual enclosures, but its reduced size makes it less common in general-purpose English text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE5B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Small Left Curly Bracket
Unicode 1.0 Name	Small Opening Curly Bracket
Block	Small Form Variants
General Category	Open Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral
Mirrored	Yes
Mirrored Character	"﹜" U+FE5C Small Right Curly Bracket
Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type	Open
Bidirectional Paired Bracket	"﹜" U+FE5C Small Right Curly Bracket
Decomposition Type	Small
Decomposition Mapping	"{" U+007B Left Curly Bracket

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	﹛
HTML Hex Encoding	﹛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE5B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE5B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe5b

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	Transformed Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Close