Heavy Right-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament ❱
Symbol Meaning
To those who are not into mathematics, physics or quantum mechanics, angle brackets are unlikely to ring any bells. These symbols are more often used to denote matrix elements, averaging, and other quantities and phenomena. There's little chance of coming across them in fictional or publicistic books.
The Right Angle Bracket differs significantly from the mathematical sign “more” > in terms of the width of the line and the size of the opening angle. It tends to be paired up with the similar left icon ❰ , which is called “an opening bracket”.
The symbol “Heavy 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 | Heavy 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 | 2770 |
| bmg | 2770 |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2771 |
| Simple case change | 2771 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D B1 | 226 157 177 | 14851505 | 11100010 10011101 10110001 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 71 | 39 113 | 10097 | 00100111 01110001 |
| UTF-16LE | 71 27 | 113 39 | 28967 | 01110001 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 71 | 0 0 39 113 | 10097 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01110001 |
| UTF-32LE | 71 27 00 00 | 113 39 0 0 | 1898381312 | 01110001 00100111 00000000 00000000 |