〈 Left-Pointing Angle Bracket

Q: 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.

What 〈 means

Use ⟨ for mathematical formulas.

Angle brackets developed into a family of punctuation and technical marks: linguists use them around graphemes (written units), East Asian punctuation uses related shapes around titles, and technical fields group expressions.

Unicode treats 〈 as equivalent to East Asian 〈 and classifies it as wide, so it can take extra horizontal space in formulas. Bra–ket notation writes quantum states; its left form is ⟨ψ|.

A specialist mark for technical and mathematical notation.

Use ⟨ in formulas; 〈 is East Asian wide and may disrupt spacing.

Don't confuse it with

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⟨

Mathematical Left Angle Bracket

Dedicated mathematical left angle bracket; use it in formulas and bra–ket notation.

〈

Left Angle Bracket

East Asian left angle bracket; Unicode treats it as equivalent to 〈.

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Less-Than Sign

ASCII less-than sign for comparisons and code; it is a different character.

Related characters

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〉

Right-Pointing Angle Bracket

〉 is the matching right-pointing partner in the same angle-bracket pair.

Questions people ask

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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.

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How to type 〈

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 2329, 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 “left-pointing angle bracket”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 2329, then Enter or Space.

HTML

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CSS

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Left-Pointing Angle Bracket