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} U+007D, }
RIGHT CURLY BRACKET
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[U+007C]
Basic Latin ~
[U+007E]
U+FE5C, ﹜
SMALL RIGHT CURLY BRACKET

[U+FE5B]
Small Form Variants
[U+FE5D]
U+FF5D, }
FULLWIDTH RIGHT CURLY BRACKET

[U+FF5C]
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
[U+FF5E]

Translingual

Punctuation mark

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  1. Used to add a comment to the right of and encompassing one or more lines, or to indicate that items to the left are subdivisions of the item on the right. Compare {.
    A ⎫
    B ⎬ these are a few letters of the alphabet
    C ⎭
    • Joseph Emerson Worcester, A Dictionary of the English Language, volume 1:
      † AT'TRY,     a. [A.S. atter, poison.] Poison-
      † AT'TER-LY, ⎭ ous; virulent.            Chaucer.
  2. Used to indicate that two or three lines of a poem form a doublet or triplet.
  3. Used in { }.

Usage notes

This symbol is also called a "right brace".

See also

References

  • Thomas F. Adams, Typographia; Or, The Printer's Instructor: A Brief Sketch: Braces stand before, and keep together, such articles as are of the same import, and are sub-divisions of the preceding articles. They sometimes stand after, and keep together, such articles as make above one line, and have [...] posts after them, which are justified to answer to the middle of the brace. The bracing side of a brace is always turned to that part of an article which makes the most lines.
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