U+276C "❬" Medium Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
❬
U+276C "❬" Medium Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament is a typographic symbol belonging to the Dingbats block, designed as a decorative or ornamental alternative to the standard mathematical or programming left angle bracket. It features a slightly thicker, more stylized shape than its plain counterpart, making it suitable for use in embellished text, bullet lists, or as a visual pointer in menus and headings. Unlike functional angle brackets used in code or markup, this character is intended primarily for aesthetic or graphic purposes, adding a touch of elegance to written content without altering its semantic meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+276C |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Medium Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Open Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "❭" U+276D Medium Right-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type | Open |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket | "❭" U+276D Medium Right-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ❬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ❬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9D 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x276C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000276C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u276c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Open Punctuation |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Close |