Unicode: Brackets 「」【】《》

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

Here is a complete list of Unicode brackets and quotation marks, grouped by style.

Common Brackets and Quotes

ASCII brackets ( ) • [ ] • { }

Curly quotes “ ” • ‘ ’

Low-9 quotation „ • ‚

French quotes ‹ › • « »

White variants ⦅ ⦆ • 〚 〛 • ⦃ ⦄

Small variants ﹙ ﹚ ﹛ ﹜ ﹝ ﹞

⸨ ⸩

Asian Brackets

「 」 • 『 』

〈 〉 • 《 》

【 】 • 〖 〗

〔 〕 • 〘 〙 • ⦗ ⦘

Full width Western brackets （ ） • ［ ］ • ｛ ｝ • ｟ ｠

Half width variant ｢ ｣

Asian Vertical Brackets

⏜ ⏝ • ⎴ ⎵ • ⏞ ⏟ • ⏠ ⏡

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

Decorative Brackets

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

Math Bracket

Misc Brackets

Editing

misc

Misc brackets ⧘ ⧙ ⧚ ⧛

⟅ ⟆

Misc Language Brackets

Arabic ornate parenthesis. ﴾ ﴿

OGHAM ᚛ ᚜

TIBETAN ༺ ༻ ༼ ༽

What Characters Are Considered Brackets

The character 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 included on this page:

• Not include: Chars that merely have the appearance of a matching bracket. e.g. LESS-THAN SIGN , GREATER-THAN SIGN < > .

• Not include: Char pairs that are simply mirror images of each ohter. e.g. math subset and superset symbols: ⊆ ⊇.

• Not include: Chars that are part of a large bracket for typeset math purposes. For example:

2014-01-07 thanks to Abigail Buccaneer for mentioning Unicode Bidi_Paired_Bracket_Type property.

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