Medium Right-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament ❭
Symbol Meaning
Angle bracket is a symbol which is clearly familiar to mathematicians, physicists, and linguists. You won't find such brackets in literary texts or everyday correspondence, but you can easily meet them in textbooks and scientific papers. Such icons are used to denote graphemes (letters or hieroglyphs), lacunae, quantum states, scalar product, averaging, and other scientific phenomena and quantities.
Angle brackets differ from the inequality signs < and > . They have a more “expanded” configuration – a larger opening angle.
In Unicode, the Right-Pointing Middle Bracket is usually used as a closing one. It comes together with a similar left-pointing bracket – ❬ .
The symbol “Medium Right-Pointing Angle Bracket 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 Right-Pointing Angle Bracket 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 | 276C |
| bmg | 276C |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 276D |
| Simple case change | 276D |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D AD | 226 157 173 | 14851501 | 11100010 10011101 10101101 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 6D | 39 109 | 10093 | 00100111 01101101 |
| UTF-16LE | 6D 27 | 109 39 | 27943 | 01101101 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 6D | 0 0 39 109 | 10093 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01101101 |
| UTF-32LE | 6D 27 00 00 | 109 39 0 0 | 1831272448 | 01101101 00100111 00000000 00000000 |