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⦖

double right arc less-than bracket

Double Right Arc Less-Than Bracket

⦖ is a closing math bracket matched with the opening form ⦕. In a formula, the surrounding notation tells you what that pair encloses.

Text symbol

Search it as: ⦖ bracket · double arc bracket · ⦖ formula
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⦖ means

It marks where the bracketed expression ends.

Its matching opener is ⦕. Read the pair as punctuation around a mathematical group: the marks set the boundary, while the notation gives the group its role.

Why was ⦖ included in mathematical character encoding?

It was proposed to complete the mathematical symbols needed by publishers.

In 2000, a proposal to extend ISO/IEC 10646, an international character-encoding standard aligned with Unicode, listed ⦖ among additional mathematical symbols. The proposal grew from STIX (Scientific and Technical Information eXchange), a publishing effort to develop shared mathematical fonts and make scientific and technical documents easier to exchange.

Don't confuse it with

⦓

Left Arc Less-Than Bracket

shares “arc”, “bracket”, “less”, “than”

⦕

Double Left Arc Greater-Than Bracket

shares “arc”, “bracket”, “double”, “than”

⦔

Right Arc Greater-Than Bracket

shares “arc”, “bracket”, “than”

⧀

Circled Less-Than

shares “less”, “than”

Questions people ask

Why does ⦖ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type ⦖

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 2996, then Alt+X to get ⦖.

Windows

Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).

macOS

Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “double right arc less-than bracket”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 2996, then Enter or Space.

HTML

⦖

CSS

\2996

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

⦖

HTML hex

⦖

CSS content

content: "\2996";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E2%A6%96

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Maths & numbers1,835 symbols

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