U+2771 "❱" Heavy Right-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
❱
U+2771 "❱" Heavy Right-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament is a typographical symbol within the Dingbats block, primarily used for decorative purposes in text, lists, or design elements for its bold, angular shape. Its heavy weight distinguishes it from standard angle brackets, offering a more pronounced visual cue often employed as a pointer, separator, or in ornamental typography to indicate a direction or transition. It can also be found in some systems as a variant glyph for list markers or to enhance the aesthetic of user interface icons and textual embellishments, bridging functional and decorative use in digital and print media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2771 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Heavy Right-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Close Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "❰" U+2770 Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket Type | Close |
| Bidirectional Paired Bracket | "❰" U+2770 Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ❱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ❱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9D 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2771 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002771 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2771 |
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 | Close 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 |