LEFT CEILING character

Name:

LEFT CEILING

Hex Number:

U+2308

Decimal Number:

8968

HTML Entity (Dec):

⌈

HTML Entity (Hex):

⌈

Category:

Ps (Open Punctuation)

Bidi Class:

ON (Other Neutrals)

Mirrored:

Combining Class:

Unicode Block:

Miscellaneous Technical

Plane:

Plane Code:

BMP

Plane Description:

Basic Multilingual Plane

Plane Range:

0000-FFFF

Character Preview:

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LEFT CEILING is an opening punctuation mark (of a pair) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of LEFT CEILING is Other Neutrals (Neutral). It belongs to the neutrals. Whitespace and punctuation, which take on the directionality of the surrounding text..

The Other Neutral (ON) bidi class includes characters that do not have a strong directional preference and can appear in any text context without influencing the overall directionality. These characters include punctuation marks, symbols, and various other text elements that do not fit into more specific bidi classes.

Open Punctuation (Ps) refers to punctuation marks that are used to open a section of text, such as parentheses, brackets, and braces. These characters are paired with closing punctuation to enclose parts of text.

This character belongs to the Miscellaneous Technical block. The Miscellaneous Technical block contains a variety of symbols used in technical fields, including electronics, engineering, and computer science. These symbols represent various components, processes, and functions, and are essential for technical documentation, diagrams, and schematics. The block ensures that technical symbols can be accurately represented in digital text, supporting a wide range of specialized applications..

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