What 〗 means
It closes a pair that makes the enclosed words stand out.
Use 〖…〗 as a visual label, not quotation. Japanese layout guidance groups it with corner, tortoise-shell, black lenticular, and white-square forms. As of 2026, the sources checked here do not establish a first manuscript, inventor, or original purpose for this exact pair.
Japanese sources use it for emphasis; Chinese guidance documents the heavier 【…】 form for news leads and annotations. Unicode’s math guidance treats lenticular brackets as wide CJK punctuation, which can add unwanted spacing in formulas.
It signals deliberate visual prominence, not neutral punctuation.
Use the pair; 〗 alone looks like an unfinished closer.
Don't confuse it with
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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.
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How to type or find 〗
- Also called
- 終わりすみ付き括弧（白） · すみつきかっこしろ
- Search it as
- sumitsuki · kakko · shiro · lenticular · bracket · japanese
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
〗\3017Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.