Unicode: Brackets 「」【】《》

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

Here is a complete list of Unicode brackets and quotation marks, grouped by style.

Western brackets

( ) • [ ] • { } • ⦅ ⦆ • 〚 〛 • ⦃ ⦄ • ﹙ ﹚ ﹛ ﹜ ﹝ ﹞ • ⸨ ⸩

‹ › • « »

ORNAMENT Brackets ❛ ❜ • ❝ ❞ • ❨ ❩ • ❪ ❫ • ❴ ❵ • ❬ ❭ • ❮ ❯ • ❰ ❱ • ❲ ❳

quotation marks “ ” • ‘ ’ • Low-9 quotation „ • ‚

Asian brackets

「 」 • 『 』 • 〈 〉 • 《 》 • 【 】 • 〖 〗 • 〔 〕 • 〘 〙 • ⦗ ⦘

（ ） • ［ ］ • ｛ ｝ • ｟ ｠

｢ ｣

Asian Vertical Brackets

⏜ ⏝ • ⎴ ⎵ • ⏞ ⏟ • ⏠ ⏡

Vertical representation form ﹁ ﹂ • ﹃ ﹄ • ︹ ︺ • ︻ ︼ • ︗ ︘ • ︿ ﹀ • ︽ ︾ • ﹇ ﹈ • ︷ ︸

Math bracket

Misc brackets

Substitution ⸂ ⸃ ⸄ ⸅ • Paraphrase ⸜ ⸝ • Omission ⸌ ⸍ • Transposition ⸉ ⸊

⧘ ⧙ • ⧚ ⧛ • ⟅ ⟆

Arabic ornate parenthesis. ﴾ ﴿

OGHAM ᚛ ᚜

TIBETAN ༺ ༻ ༼ ༽

What characters are considered brackets

The character here must be a matching bracket pair with respect to their semantics, as indicated in the char's Unicode name.

In particular, the following chars are not included on this page:

• Not include: Chars that merely have the appearance of a matching bracket. e.g. LESS-THAN SIGN , GREATER-THAN SIGN < > .

• Not include: Char pairs that are simply mirror images of each ohter. e.g. math subset and superset symbols: ⊆ ⊇.

• Not include: Chars that are part of a large bracket for typeset math purposes. For example:

2014-01-07 thanks to Abigail Buccaneer for mentioning Unicode Bidi_Paired_Bracket_Type property.