U+300A "《" Left Double Angle Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+300A "《" Left Double Angle Bracket is a punctuation mark primarily used in East Asian scripts such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it typically serves as the opening quotation mark or an angle bracket title marker. It is often paired with its closing counterpart, U+300B "》", to enclose titles of books, articles, films, or other works in formal writing. In Chinese and Japanese, this bracket is distinct from the similarly shaped guillemet, as it is part of the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block and is designed to align with the character grid of East Asian text. Unlike ASCII angle brackets, the left double angle bracket has a specific typographic width and aesthetic that suits vertical and horizontal writing systems in these languages.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
《 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
《 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE3 0x80 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x300A |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000300A |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u300a |
Unicode Properties