What ❫ means
It closes a decorative pair of brackets opened by ❪. Together they frame a word the way a little ornamental border would: ❪new❫, ❪chapter one❫. That is the typical use, in nicknames, profile bios, headings and labels where plain ( ) feels too dull. Alone, ❫ is just a flourish and does not mean anything extra.
It belongs to a set of ornamental brackets in ITC Zapf Dingbats, the symbol font Hermann Zapf designed in 1978 and that shipped with printers and computers for decades. The brackets sat in the font without standard codes, so they did not travel reliably between systems. Unicode gave them their own code points, which is why ❫ now works as ordinary text wherever a font has the drawing.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA decorative frame around a name, title or label.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Questions people ask
2Can I use ❫ instead of ) in normal writing?
Better not. Computers treat it as a different character, so search, spellcheck and screen readers won't handle it like a bracket. Keep it for decoration.
Why do I see an empty box instead of ❫?
Your device's font has no drawing for it. The character is still there; another font or device will show it.
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〉Right-Pointing Angle Bracket
〈Left-Pointing Angle Bracket
❱Heavy Right-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament
❯Heavy Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament
❩Medium Right Parenthesis Ornament
❪Medium Flattened Left Parenthesis Ornament
❬Medium Left-Pointing Angle Bracket Ornament
¦Broken Bar
°Degree Sign
■Black Square
□White Square
▢White Square With Rounded CornersHow to type or find ❫
- Search it as
- ❫ · decorative parenthesis · ornamental bracket · flattened parenthesis · fancy bracket · Zapf Dingbats
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
❫\276BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.