Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament ❮
Symbol Meaning
Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Bracket forms a pair with a similar mark aiming to the right – ❯. These symbols are rarely used in typography. There are only two main situations when they're applied: a missing text fragment or an editorial comments. Talking about missing sentences, a colon is put between the right and left parenthesis.
Despite the external similarity, this bracket differs from the mathematical sign “less” – <. It is made with a wide line and has a more noticeable opening angle.
The symbol “Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark 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 | Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark 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) | Open |
| Bidi Paired Bracket | 276F |
| bmg | 276F |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 276E |
| Simple case change | 276E |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D AE | 226 157 174 | 14851502 | 11100010 10011101 10101110 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 6E | 39 110 | 10094 | 00100111 01101110 |
| UTF-16LE | 6E 27 | 110 39 | 28199 | 01101110 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 6E | 0 0 39 110 | 10094 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01101110 |
| UTF-32LE | 6E 27 00 00 | 110 39 0 0 | 1848049664 | 01101110 00100111 00000000 00000000 |