U+FE5C "﹜" Small Right Curly Bracket Unicode Character

U+FE5C "﹜" Small Right Curly Bracket is a small form variant of the standard right curly bracket, also known as a closing brace. It is part of the Small Form Variants block, which provides compact punctuation characters intended for use in vertical text layouts or in tight typographic spaces where standard-sized brackets might appear too large. Unlike the regular full-width closing brace, this character has a smaller glyph and narrower width, but it serves the same syntactic roles in notations, programming, and text, such as closing a set, a block, or a grouping. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms when a space saving or vertically oriented punctuation is required.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	﹜
HTML Hex Encoding	﹜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE5C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE5C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe5c

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