U+FE3E "︾" Presentation Form for Vertical Right Double Angle Bracket Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
︾
U+FE3E "︾" Presentation Form for Vertical Right Double Angle Bracket is a typographic glyph used primarily in East Asian text layout, specifically designed to be displayed when the standard double angle bracket (》 or 〉) is rotated ninety degrees for vertical writing systems. In vertical text, this character appears as a larger, rotated right pointing angle bracket that opens toward the left, aligning with the flow of characters from top to bottom. It is part of the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block, often employed in legacy encoding contexts or specialized formatting to ensure proper visual orientation in traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE3E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Presentation Form for Vertical Right Double Angle Bracket |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Vertical Closing Double Angle Bracket |
| Block | CJK Compatibility Forms |
| General Category | Close Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Vertical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "》" U+300B Right Double Angle Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ︾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ︾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB8 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE3E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe3e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Close Punctuation |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "》" U+300B Right Double Angle Bracket |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "》" U+300B Right Double Angle Bracket |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Close |