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U+2308 · LEFT CEILING

Left Ceiling

  • CodepointU+2308
  • NameLEFT CEILING
  • Decimal8968
  • BlockMiscellaneous Technical (U+2300–U+23FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPs — Open Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredYes

About this character

U+2308 (⌈) is LEFT CEILING, an opening bracket or punctuation mark in the Miscellaneous Technical block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a mirrored character: in right-to-left text it is displayed as its mirror image, which matches U+2309 ⌉.

How to type ⌈

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 8C 883 bytes
UTF-1623081 code unit
UTF-32000023084 bytes
HTML named⌈named character reference
HTML named⌈named character reference
HTML decimal⌈
HTML hex⌈
CSS\2308in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2308
JSON\u2308
Python\u2308
Python\N{LEFT CEILING}by name
Java / C#\u2308
C / C++\u2308universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2308}
Go\u2308
Ruby\u2308
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8968)
URL-encoded%E2%8C%88percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Technical

All in block →
U+2302⌂House U+2303⌃Up Arrowhead U+2304⌄Down Arrowhead U+2305⌅Projective U+2306⌆Perspective U+2307⌇Wavy Line U+2309⌉Right Ceiling U+230A⌊Left Floor U+230B⌋Right Floor U+230C⌌Bottom Right Crop U+230D⌍Bottom Left Crop U+230E⌎Top Right Crop