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

Right Angle Bracket is U+3009 in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block. Medium Right-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament is U+276D in the Dingbats block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Right Angle Bracket?

The HTML entity for Right Angle Bracket (U+3009) is 〉.

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

The HTML entity for Medium Right-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament (U+276D) is ❭.

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

No. Right Angle Bracket is U+3009 (decimal 12297) and Medium Right-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament is U+276D (decimal 10093). They are separate codepoints.

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

Right Angle Bracket (U+3009) encodes as E3 80 89 in UTF-8. Medium Right-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament (U+276D) encodes as E2 9D AD in UTF-8.

Right Angle Bracket vs Medium Right-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.

〉

Right Angle Bracket

U+3009

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❭

Medium Right-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament

U+276D

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Property Comparison

Property	Right Angle Bracket	Medium Right-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament
Codepoint	`U+3009`	`U+276D`
Decimal	`12297`	`10093`
HTML Entity	`〉`	`❭`
HTML Decimal	`〉`	`❭`
HTML Hex	`〉`	`❭`
UTF-8	`E3 80 89`	`E2 9D AD`
UTF-16	`30 09`	`27 6D`
UTF-32	`00003009`	`0000276D`
CSS Escape	`\3009`	`\276D`
JS Escape	`\u3009`	`\u276D`
Python Escape	`\u3009`	`\u276D`
URL Encoded	`%E3%80%89`	`%E2%9D%AD`
Category	`Close Punctuation (Pe)`	`Close Punctuation (Pe)`
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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