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

Hiragana Letter Ku is U+304F in the Hiragana 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 Hiragana Letter Ku?

The HTML entity for Hiragana Letter Ku (U+304F) is く.

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 Hiragana Letter Ku and Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament the same Unicode character?

No. Hiragana Letter Ku is U+304F (decimal 12367) and Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament is U+276C (decimal 10092). They are separate codepoints.

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

Hiragana Letter Ku (U+304F) encodes as E3 81 8F in UTF-8. Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament (U+276C) encodes as E2 9D AC in UTF-8.

Hiragana Letter Ku vs Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament

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く

Hiragana Letter Ku

U+304F

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❬

Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament

U+276C

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Property Comparison

Property	Hiragana Letter Ku	Medium Left-pointing Angle Bracket Ornament
Codepoint	`U+304F`	`U+276C`
Decimal	`12367`	`10092`
HTML Entity	`く`	`❬`
HTML Decimal	`く`	`❬`
HTML Hex	`く`	`❬`
UTF-8	`E3 81 8F`	`E2 9D AC`
UTF-16	`30 4F`	`27 6C`
UTF-32	`0000304F`	`0000276C`
CSS Escape	`\304F`	`\276C`
JS Escape	`\u304F`	`\u276C`
Python Escape	`\u304F`	`\u276C`
URL Encoded	`%E3%81%8F`	`%E2%9D%AC`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Open Punctuation (Ps)`
Block	`Hiragana`	`Dingbats`
Script	`Hiragana`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`L`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`3.2`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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