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U+3008 · LEFT ANGLE BRACKET

Left Angle Bracket

CodepointU+3008
NameLEFT ANGLE BRACKET
Decimal12296
BlockCJK Symbols and Punctuation (U+3000–U+303F)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategoryPs — Open Punctuation
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthW — Wide
MirroredYes

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E3 80 88`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`3008`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`00003008`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`〈`
HTML hex	`〈`
CSS	`\3008`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u3008`
JSON	`\u3008`
Python	`\u3008`
Python	`\N{LEFT ANGLE BRACKET}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u3008`
C / C++	`\u3008`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{3008}`
Go	`\u3008`
Ruby	`\u3008`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(12296)`
URL-encoded	`%E3%80%88`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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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+2329〈Left-Pointing Angle Bracket U+276C❬Medium Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament U+27E8⟨Mathematical 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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Characters built on 〈

U+2329〈Left-Pointing Angle Bracket U+FE3F︿Presentation Form for Vertical Left Angle Bracket

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Nearby in CJK Symbols and Punctuation

All in block →

U+3002。Ideographic Full Stop U+3003〃Ditto Mark U+3004〄Japanese Industrial Standard Symbol U+3005々Ideographic Iteration Mark U+3006〆Ideographic Closing Mark U+3007〇Ideographic Number Zero U+3009〉Right Angle Bracket U+300A《Left Double Angle Bracket U+300B》Right Double Angle Bracket U+300C「Left Corner Bracket U+300D」Right Corner Bracket U+300E『Left White Corner Bracket