Heavy Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament ❯
Symbol Meaning
Heavy Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Bracket is applied together with this right sign ❮ . Such a pair of symbols tends to mark gapped information or a fragment missing from the text. The punctuation mark put between the right and left brackets is called ellipsis … . It means that the author has referred to some events or has quoted another book or edition.
One more way of using angle brackets is to denote writer's, editor's, or publisher's comments. For example, if an interviewee missed a word crucial for the understanding of his/her speech, the journalist or the author of the printed text may add it in brackets, thus clarifying the information.
The symbol “Heavy Right-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 Right-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) | Close |
| Bidi Paired Bracket | 276E |
| bmg | 276E |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 276F |
| Simple case change | 276F |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D AF | 226 157 175 | 14851503 | 11100010 10011101 10101111 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 6F | 39 111 | 10095 | 00100111 01101111 |
| UTF-16LE | 6F 27 | 111 39 | 28455 | 01101111 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 6F | 0 0 39 111 | 10095 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01101111 |
| UTF-32LE | 6F 27 00 00 | 111 39 0 0 | 1864826880 | 01101111 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
