Mathematical Left Angle Bracket

U+27E8
BMP Unicode 3.2
Character
Decimal ⟨
Hex ⟨

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+27E8
Decimal
10216
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Open Punctuation (Ps)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
Mirrored
Yes — glyph is mirrored in RTL context
East Asian Width
Na Narrow
Properties
Math

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Mathematical Left Angle Bracket.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
⟨
HTML Hex
⟨
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 9F A8
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
27 E8
UTF-32 Hex
000027E8
CSS Escape
\27E8
JavaScript Escape
\u27E8
Python Escape
\u27E8
URL Encoded
%E2%9F%A8
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