What ❴ means
❴ is the medium left curly bracket ornament. Unicode classifies it as an opening bracket and files it in the Dingbats block; this site shelves it under Stars & signs.
Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.
How it is encoded
❴ is a single code point, U2774. In HTML that is ❴, and in CSS \2774.
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
1
Related characters
2
Combination ideas
3Ornamental curly brackets framing a name or title.
Sparkles framed as a decorative accent.
Fancy-font name framed for a bio or username.
Questions people ask
1Why does ❴ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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〉Right-Pointing Angle Bracket
❱Heavy Right-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament
❯Heavy Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament
❲Light Left Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament
❳Light Right Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament
❵Medium Right Curly Bracket Ornament
¦Broken Bar
°Degree Sign
■Black Square
□White Square
▢White Square With Rounded CornersHow to type or find ❴
- Search it as
- curly brace · left curly brace · left brace · decorative brace · ornamental brace
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
❴CSS
\2774Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
❴
HTML hex
❴
CSS content
content: "\2774";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9D%B4
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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.