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U+2329 · LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET

Left-Pointing Angle Bracket

  • CodepointU+2329
  • NameLEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET
  • Decimal9001
  • BlockMiscellaneous Technical (U+2300–U+23FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPs — Open Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredYes

About this character

U+2329 (〈) is LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET, an opening bracket or punctuation mark in the Miscellaneous Technical block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a canonical singleton: Unicode treats it as identical to U+3008 〈, and every normalization form (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD) replaces it with that character. Text that must round-trip exactly should avoid it. See the normalization guide.

It is a mirrored character: in right-to-left text it is displayed as its mirror image, which matches U+232A 〉.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type 〈

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 8C A93 bytes
UTF-1623291 code unit
UTF-32000023294 bytes
HTML decimal〈
HTML hex〈
CSS\2329in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2329
JSON\u2329
Python\u2329
Python\N{LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET}by name
Java / C#\u2329
C / C++\u2329universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2329}
Go\u2329
Ruby\u2329
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9001)
URL-encoded%E2%8C%A9percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCU+3008 〈
NFDU+3008 〈
NFKCU+3008 〈
NFKDU+3008 〈
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+276C❬Medium Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament U+27E8⟨Mathematical Left Angle Bracket U+3008〈Left Angle Bracket U+304FくHiragana Letter Ku U+31DB㇛CJK Stroke Pd U+21FE8𡿨CJK Unified Ideograph-21fe8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Technical

All in block →
U+2323⌣Smile U+2324⌤Up Arrowhead Between Two Horizontal Bars U+2325⌥Option Key U+2326⌦Erase to the Right U+2327⌧X in A Rectangle Box U+2328⌨Keyboard U+232A〉Right-Pointing Angle Bracket U+232B⌫Erase to the Left U+232C⌬Benzene Ring U+232D⌭Cylindricity U+232E⌮All Around-Profile U+232F⌯Symmetry