Left Curly Bracket Middle Piece ⎨

⎨ (U+23A8) is a standard Unicode character that you can copy and paste anywhere text is accepted. This page provides a concise reference with safe tips, internal links, and practical guidance so you can use it reliably across apps and platforms.

What it is and where it’s used: Left Curly Bracket Middle Piece is part of the Symbols family (block: Miscellaneous Technical). If you need styled or decorative alternatives, try our Fancy Text tool to generate compatible text that works in most modern interfaces.

History & usage: LEFT CURLY BRACKET MIDDLE PIECE is a technical symbol used to build full curly braces in math and code. Its codepoint is U+23A8, and it sits in the Miscellaneous Technical block. The symbol is common in drawings and fonts that show braces as separate parts. In writing and programming, brackets and quotes help delimit groups, parameters, or quoted text. The middle piece acts as a connector between the outer braces or between other brace fragments. Users rarely type this piece by itself in ordinary text, but it appears when the full brace is shown as a sequence of parts. In practice, you pair this middle piece with other bracket parts to mark the start or end of a group. It helps keep structure clear in formulas, data blocks, and code sections. Because it is a specialized symbol, you will often see it only in technical documents or when discussing Unicode, font design, or rendering systems. Overall, its role is to support clear delimitation, following the same logic as larger braces. The usage remains focused and practical for readers and programmers.

Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+23A8 in many development tools or editors. Some operating systems provide a character viewer or input palette that lets you search by name or code and insert the glyph into documents.

Display and fallback: if you see an empty box (tofu) or a placeholder rectangle, the active font might not include this codepoint. Switching to a font with broader Unicode coverage or using a fallback font usually fixes the issue. On the web, ensure the page’s font stack includes a general‑purpose fallback.

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