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Left Ceiling HTML entity ⌈
⌈ is the HTML entity for Left Ceiling ⌈ (U+2308). Copy the decimal ⌈ and hex ⌈ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
⌈- Also written
⌈- Code point
- U+2308
- Unicode name
- LEFT CEILING
- Block
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Category
- Open punctuation (Ps)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ⌈Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ⌈Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ⌈Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\2308";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2308"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2308"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{LEFT CEILING}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%8C%88Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 8C 883 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 23081 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
⌈ writes U+2308 (Left Ceiling), an opening bracket from the Unicode Miscellaneous Technical block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. For more than a symbol or two, MathML, supported in all major browsers since 2023, gives proper maths spacing and layout.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).