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Matching Brackets in Unicode

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Xah Lee, 2010-08-13

This page shows all matching brackets in Unicode.

ASCII: () [] {}

Full width variant: () [] {}

White variants: ⦅⦆ 〚〛 ⦃⦄

Common Western quotation: “” ‘’ ‹› «»

Asian: 「」 〈〉 《》 【】 〔〕 ⦗⦘

Asian white variant: 『』 〖〗 〘〙

Half width variant: 「」

Math: ⟦⟧ ⟨⟩ ⟪⟫ ⟮⟯ ⟬⟭

Decorative: ❛❜ ❝❞ ❨❩ ❪❫ ❴❵ ❬❭ ❮❯ ❰❱ ❲❳

Vertical: ⏜⏝ ⎴⎵ ⏞⏟ ⏠⏡

Vertical representation form: ﹁﹂ ﹃﹄ ︹︺ ︻︼ ︗︘ ︿﹀ ︽︾ ﹇﹈ ︷︸

Other: ﹛﹜ ﹝﹞ ⸢⸣ ⸤⸥ ⦋⦌ ⦍⦎ ⦏⦐ ⁅⁆ 〈〉 ⦑⦒ ⦓⦔ ⦕⦖ ⧼⧽ ⸂⸃ ⸄⸅ ⸉⸊ ⸜⸝ ⸌⸍ 󠁛󠁝 󠁻󠁽

Unicode Character Shows Blank, Question Mark, Gibberish

What Chars Are Included

The chars here must be a matching bracket pair with respect to their semantics, as indicated in the char's Unicode name.

In particular, the following chars are not considered a matching bracket:

The chars collected here is not complete. I estimate there are maybe 20 pairs more that should be added here.

Many of the brackets here are used in Chinese. See: Intro to Chinese Punctuation.

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