What is the difference between Left Angle Bracket and Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament?

Left Angle Bracket is U+3008 in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block. Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament is U+276C in the Dingbats block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Left Angle Bracket?

The HTML entity for Left Angle Bracket (U+3008) is 〈.

What is the HTML entity for Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament?

The HTML entity for Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament (U+276C) is ❬.

Are Left Angle Bracket and Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament the same Unicode character?

No. Left Angle Bracket is U+3008 (decimal 12296) and Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament is U+276C (decimal 10092). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Left Angle Bracket and Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament?

Left Angle Bracket (U+3008) encodes as E3 80 88 in UTF-8. Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament (U+276C) encodes as E2 9D AC in UTF-8.

Left Angle Bracket vs Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

〈

Left Angle Bracket

U+3008

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❬

Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament

U+276C

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Property Comparison

Property	Left Angle Bracket	Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament
Codepoint	`U+3008`	`U+276C`
Decimal	`12296`	`10092`
HTML Entity	`〈`	`❬`
HTML Decimal	`〈`	`❬`
HTML Hex	`〈`	`❬`
UTF-8	`E3 80 88`	`E2 9D AC`
UTF-16	`30 08`	`27 6C`
UTF-32	`00003008`	`0000276C`
CSS Escape	`\3008`	`\276C`
JS Escape	`\u3008`	`\u276C`
Python Escape	`\u3008`	`\u276C`
URL Encoded	`%E3%80%88`	`%E2%9D%AC`
Category	`Open Punctuation (Ps)`	`Open Punctuation (Ps)`
Block	`CJK Symbols and Punctuation`	`Dingbats`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`3.2`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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