U+276C "❬" Medium Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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.
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Medium Flattened Right Parenthesis Ornament
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U+276D
Medium Right-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament
General Properties
Code Point
U+276C
Name
Medium Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament
Mirrored Character
Bidirectional Paired Bracket
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common