Unicode: Brackets, Quotes 「」【】《》

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

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

Common Brackets and Quotes

ASCII brackets ( ) , [ ] , { }

Curly quotes “ ” , ‘ ’

Low-9 quotation „ ‚

French quotes ‹ › , « »

White variants ⦅ ⦆ , 〚 〛 , ⦃ ⦄

Small variants ﹙ ﹚ ﹛ ﹜ ﹝ ﹞

⸨ ⸩

Asian Brackets

「 」 , 『 』

〈 〉 , 《 》

【 】 , 〖 〗

〔 〕 , 〘 〙 , ⦗ ⦘

Full width Western brackets （ ） , ［ ］ , ｛ ｝ , ｟ ｠

Half width variant ｢ ｣

Asian Vertical Brackets

⏜ ⏝ , ⎴ ⎵ , ⏞ ⏟ , ⏠ ⏡

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

Decorative Brackets

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

Math Bracket

Misc Brackets

Editing

misc

Misc brackets ⧘ ⧙ ⧚ ⧛

⟅ ⟆ ,

Misc Language Brackets

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.

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