Medium Flattened Right Parenthesis Ornament ❫
Symbol Meaning
Parentheses appeared in the middle of the 16th century. It happened when an Italian mathematician and engineer ran out of the usual symbols to describe formulas, so he decided to invent a new paired sign. A century later, brackets became more common among scientists, and after a while the symbol migrated from logic and mathematics to typography.
There are multiple pairs of brackets in Unicode. Among them is the middle flattened right bracket. It is usually used as a closing one with the left opening ❪, thus making a pair. It can also be used in numbered lists or as part of a basic smiley face.
The symbol “Medium Flattened Right Parenthesis Ornament” is included in the “Ornamental brackets” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 3.2 in 2002.
| Unicode Name | Medium Flattened Right Parenthesis Ornament |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Ornamental brackets |
| Unicode Version | 3.2 (2002) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | Close |
| Bidi Paired Bracket | 276A |
| bmg | 276A |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 276B |
| Simple case change | 276B |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D AB | 226 157 171 | 14851499 | 11100010 10011101 10101011 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 6B | 39 107 | 10091 | 00100111 01101011 |
| UTF-16LE | 6B 27 | 107 39 | 27431 | 01101011 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 6B | 0 0 39 107 | 10091 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01101011 |
| UTF-32LE | 6B 27 00 00 | 107 39 0 0 | 1797718016 | 01101011 00100111 00000000 00000000 |