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U+300A · LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET

Left Double Angle Bracket

  • CodepointU+300A
  • NameLEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET
  • Decimal12298
  • 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

About this character

U+300A (《) is LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET, an opening bracket or punctuation mark in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation 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 mirrored character: in right-to-left text it is displayed as its mirror image, which matches U+300B 》.

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-8E3 80 8A3 bytes
UTF-16300A1 code unit
UTF-320000300A4 bytes
HTML decimal《
HTML hex《
CSS\300Ain content: "…"
JavaScript\u300A
JSON\u300A
Python\u300A
Python\N{LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET}by name
Java / C#\u300A
C / C++\u300Auniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{300A}
Go\u300A
Ruby\u300A
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12298)
URL-encoded%E3%80%8Apercent-encoded UTF-8
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Characters built on 《

U+FE3D︽Presentation Form for Vertical Left Double Angle Bracket
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Nearby in CJK Symbols and Punctuation

All in block →
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+3008〈Left Angle Bracket U+3009〉Right Angle Bracket U+300B》Right Double Angle Bracket U+300C「Left Corner Bracket U+300D」Right Corner Bracket U+300E『Left White Corner Bracket U+300F』Right White Corner Bracket U+3010【Left Black Lenticular Bracket