Unicode Character "❮" (U+276E)

The character ❮ (Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+276E. It is encoded in the Dingbats block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (March, 2002). It is HTML encoded as ❮. Its mirrored character is ❯ (U+276F).

Main Unicode Properties

Name Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament
Unicode Codepoint U+276E
Unicode Version 3.2 (March, 2002)
Block Dingbats
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? Yes
Mirrored character ❯ (U+276F)

Other Unicode Data

Category Open Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+276E Conversion

HTML (decimal) ❮
HTML (hex) ❮
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%9D%AE
CSS \00276E
JavaScript, JSON \u276E
C, C++, Java \u276E
Python \u276E
Rust \u{276E}
Ruby \u276E

How to type "❮"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 7 6 E. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 7 6 E. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ❮
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ❮
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ❮
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x9D 0xAE
UTF-16 (hex) 0x276E
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000276E

References