What ⧘ means
It opens a specialized mathematical enclosure.
In a formula, the fence marks the boundary of an expression or construction. The wider mathematical-symbol group includes uncommon fences and other technical delimiters.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Is ⧘ a Bourbaki bracket?
Not as a confirmed match. A 2019 TeX discussion reported similar brackets in a Russian translation of Theory of Sets by the mathematicians writing as Nicolas Bourbaki; it did not establish they were the same notation.
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How to type or find ⧘
- Search it as
- lvzigzag · zigzag bracket · mathematical fence · STIX delimiter · Bourbaki assembly bracket
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⧘CSS
\29D8TeX
In the TeX typesetting system, STIX provides
\lvzigzag; \rvzigzag is its closing partner.Unicode math
With
unicode-math, choose a supporting math font such as STIX2Math; otherwise ⧘ may be missing.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⧘
HTML hex
⧘
CSS content
content: "\29D8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A7%98
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.