What 〖 means
It marks a label or annotation, not a feeling. China's 2011 punctuation standard uses 〖…〗 for a report opening and for an explained term. Japan's JIS X 0213 from 2000 lists it as the white sumitsuki bracket, a squared frame with open corners.
Why does 〖 look different?
Match it with 〗; fonts change the rest. A lone 〖 looks unfinished. The outline is thin and squared, but its weight and corner shape shift by font, so judge white versus black by the code point, not a screenshot.
Editorial or reference-style.
Close 〖 with 〗; a lone opener looks unfinished.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsLabels the report opening.
Don't confuse it with
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【】 Black lenticular pair; 〖〗 is the white form.
Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Questions people ask
1Why 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.
More like this
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Collections with 〖
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How to type or find 〖
- Also called
- 隅付き括弧 · sumitsuki kakko · 空心方头括号
- Search it as
- sumitsuki · kakko · 隅付き · 方头括号
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
〖\3016Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.