What ﹝ means
They enclose editorial additions or notes. In Japanese typography, 〔〕 are vertical counterparts of ［］ and can mark additions by an editor or translator. Chinese punctuation guidance also uses the pair for annotations, dynasty or nationality labels, and official document issue years.
NFKC, a Unicode text-normalization rule, maps ﹝ to 〔; text processed with that rule loses the small-form distinction.
Formal editorial punctuation tied to East Asian typographic conventions.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Left Tortoise Shell Bracket
The full-size opening bracket corresponding to the small form ﹝.
Small Right Tortoise Shell Bracket
The matching small-form closing tortoise-shell bracket.
Presentation Form For Vertical Left Tortoise Shell Bracket
Vertical form of 〔: the same base bracket turned upright instead of made smaller.
Combination ideas
3Japanese 'middle omitted': part of a quote was cut.
Compact editorial note: 注 means 'note'.
A star in tiny tortoise-shell brackets, a name decoration.
Questions people ask
1Can NFKC change ﹝ to 〔?
Yes. NFKC maps this small-form character to its full-size counterpart.
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〈Left-Pointing Angle Bracket
〉Right-Pointing Angle Bracket
❝Heavy Double Turned Comma Quotation Mark Ornament
❞Heavy Double Comma Quotation Mark Ornament
﹛Small Left Curly Bracket
﹜Small Right Curly Bracket
﹞Small Right Tortoise Shell Bracket
!Exclamation Mark
"Quotation Mark
#Number Sign
%Percent Sign
&AmpersandHow to type or find ﹝
- Also called
- kikkō bracket · 亀甲括弧
- Search it as
- kikko bracket · kikkou bracket · tortoise shell bracket · six-angle bracket
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
﹝CSS
\FE5DCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
﹝
HTML hex
﹝
CSS content
content: "\FE5D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EF%B9%9D
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.