Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament ❰
Symbol Meaning
The angle brackets ❰ and ❱ are used as mathematical symbols: to denote the scalar product, quantum vectors, matrix elements, averages. In philology, such brackets can be seen in the description of graphemes – letters, hieroglyphs, ideograms.
Despite the definite purpose, angle brackets may often be used as dingbats – text decorations. Such graphical icons may draw a lot of attention to a nickname or some important piece of text in an advertising creative. Plus, you can easily make a beautiful and extraordinary ornament using these symbols.
Heavy Left Angle Bracket is considered to be the opening one, whereas usually combined with the Right Angle Bracket – ❱.
The symbol “Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament” is included in the “Ornamental brackets” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 3.2 in 2002.
| Unicode Name | Heavy Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Ornamental brackets |
| Unicode Version | 3.2 (2002) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | Open |
| Bidi Paired Bracket | 2771 |
| bmg | 2771 |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2770 |
| Simple case change | 2770 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D B0 | 226 157 176 | 14851504 | 11100010 10011101 10110000 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 70 | 39 112 | 10096 | 00100111 01110000 |
| UTF-16LE | 70 27 | 112 39 | 28711 | 01110000 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 70 | 0 0 39 112 | 10096 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01110000 |
| UTF-32LE | 70 27 00 00 | 112 39 0 0 | 1881604096 | 01110000 00100111 00000000 00000000 |