Light Right Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament ❳
Symbol Meaning
Did you know that in addition to the round, curly and angle brackets, there are also tortoise shell ones? They have an extraordinary shape featuring two kinks, and they function as a paired symbol, meaning that there is an opening (left) bracket and a closing (right) one.
How should we use tortoise shell brackets? Actually, it's up to you. Sometimes you may come across them in complex scientific formulas and engineering calculations. Signs with a similar font are presented in the STIX font designed to convey various mathematical symbols.
Unicode offers a pair for this thin right tortoise shell bracket — the mentioned-above left-pointing version ❲ .
The symbol “Light Right Tortoise Shell 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 | Light Right Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ❳ |
| 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 | 2772 |
| bmg | 2772 |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2773 |
| Simple case change | 2773 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D B3 | 226 157 179 | 14851507 | 11100010 10011101 10110011 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 73 | 39 115 | 10099 | 00100111 01110011 |
| UTF-16LE | 73 27 | 115 39 | 29479 | 01110011 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 73 | 0 0 39 115 | 10099 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01110011 |
| UTF-32LE | 73 27 00 00 | 115 39 0 0 | 1931935744 | 01110011 00100111 00000000 00000000 |