What ⧚ means
⧚ is the left double wiggly fence. Unicode classifies it as an opening bracket and files it in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block; this site shelves it under Maths.
Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.
How it is encoded
⧚ is a single code point, U29DA. In HTML that is ⧚, and in CSS \29DA.
Related characters
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Right Double Wiggly Fence
Unicode pairs this right double wiggly fence with ⧚ as its closing member.
Left Wiggly Fence
This is the single wiggly fence, the one-line counterpart to the double-line opener ⧚; its pair closes with ⧙.
Right Wiggly Fence
This right single wiggly fence closes ⧘, the one-line counterpart to ⧚.
Worth knowing
- A Unicode additional-mathematics proposal dated 2001 already lists the pair; that dates the proposal, not the invention of the shape.
Questions people ask
1Why can ⧚ appear to face right?
In right-to-left text, Unicode's bidirectional rules can display its paired form ⧛; the character in the text remains ⧚.
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How to type or find ⧚
- Search it as
- left double wiggly fence symbol · left double wiggly fence copy paste
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⧚CSS
\29DACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⧚
HTML hex
⧚
CSS content
content: "\29DA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A7%9A
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.