Unicode: Brackets, Quotes «»「」【】《》

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

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

ASCII brackets ( ) [ ] { }
Western quotation « »
Low-9 quotation
Full width brackets
White variants
Asian
Asian white variant
Half width variant
Math

[see Unicode Math Symbols ∑ ∫ π² ∞]

Decorative
Arabic ornate parenthesis. (You need Arabic font) ﴿
More angle brackets
Small variants
superscript, subscript variants
Square bracket variants
Misc brackets
Paraphrase Omission Substitution Transposition

Vertical Brackets

Vertical
Vertical representation form ︿

What Characters Are Included

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

Also, all Unicode characters with Unicode Bidi_Paired_Bracket_Type property values of Open and Close are included. See: http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/BidiBrackets.txt (local copy BidiBrackets.txt)

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

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

• Not include: Char pairs that are simply mirror images of each ohter. For example, math subset and superset symbols: .

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

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