What ❩ means
Use hexadecimal Unicode entry for 2769 if your editor supports it. This decorative parenthesis is not the ordinary ) key.
Enter 2769 and run your editor’s Unicode conversion command; the exact keystrokes depend on the app. The ordinary ) key produces plain punctuation.
Is this a normal parenthesis or a dingbat?
It is a dingbat parenthesis: an ornamental right bracket.
It pairs with ❨, the matching decorative left parenthesis, to frame a span of text. Its role is visual punctuation: the bracket marks where the framed text closes, while the words carry the passage’s meaning.
Typographic and decorative; it visually closes a bracketed span.
For ordinary punctuation, use the plain right parenthesis: ).
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Worth knowing
- The Unicode proposal grouped 14 ornamental brackets already present in Zapf Dingbats, a font of printer’s symbols. The pair appeared in Macintosh versions, while Windows users lacked access until a corrected font release in 1997.
Questions people ask
1Why does this symbol look different in my font?
Different fonts draw dingbats with different outlines, so ❩ may look heavier or narrower depending on the typeface. Unicode guidance treats the representative shape as important, but the exact outline comes from the font.
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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
❧Rotated Floral Heart Bullet
❨Medium Left Parenthesis Ornament
❪Medium Flattened Left Parenthesis Ornament
¦Broken Bar
°Degree Sign
■Black Square
□White Square
▢White Square With Rounded CornersCollections with ❩
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How to type or find ❩
- Also called
- ornamental right parenthesis · dingbat parenthesis
- Search it as
- decorative parenthesis · Zapf parenthesis
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
❩\27692769 and run its conversion command; exact keystrokes vary by app.) key makes plain punctuation, not this ornamental bracket.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.