Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament ❮

U+276E
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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.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

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

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