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⦃

left white curly bracket

Left White Curly Bracket

⦃ is a math bracket that opens a group; the surrounding formula gives its exact reading. MathML, a format for writing formulas, can stretch it to fit the contents.

Text symbol

Search it as: math bracket · curly math bracket · mathematical fence · opening delimiter · Unicode bracket · ⦃ meaning
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⦃ means

It marks where a mathematical group begins.

MathML treats it as a stretchy fence, enlarged to fit the expression it encloses.

Unicode's date is not the bracket's origin

In 2002, Unicode broadened its math repertoire for formula software, drawing on math-and-science symbol sets from ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and STIX (Scientific and Technical Information Exchange), a collection of technical-publication symbols.

Don't confuse it with

{

Left Curly Bracket

The ordinary opening curly brace is a different character. ⦃ is a separate math delimiter; use the form required by the notation.

Questions people ask

Why does ⦃ show as a box?

Your active font may lack the glyph. Noto Sans Math lists its block as supported as of 2026-10-08.

How to type ⦃

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 2983, then Alt+X to get ⦃.

Windows

Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).

macOS

Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “left white curly bracket”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 2983, then Enter or Space.

HTML

⦃

CSS

\2983

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

⦃

HTML hex

⦃

CSS content

content: "\2983";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E2%A6%83

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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