Brackets special characters

Bracket and parenthesis variants: angle, corner, tortoise shell, lenticular, white, small and fullwidth.

Brackets

36

Brackets character reference

To type one of these on Windows, hold Alt and type the Alt code on the numeric keypad. On a Mac, press the shortcut shown. In HTML, paste the entity in place of the character.

CharacterNameCode pointWindows Alt codeHTML entityMac shortcut
〔left tortoise shell bracketU+3014—〔—
〕right tortoise shell bracketU+3015—〕—
﹛small left curly bracketU+FE5B—﹛—
﹜small right curly bracketU+FE5C—﹜—
﹙small left parenU+FE59—﹙—
﹚small right parenU+FE5A—﹚—
〖left white lenticular bracketU+3016—〖—
〗right white lenticular bracketU+3017—〗—
『left white corner bracketU+300E—『—
』right white corner bracketU+300F—』—
(fullwidth left parenU+FF08—(—
)fullwidth right parenU+FF09—)—
「left corner bracketU+300C—「—
」right corner bracketU+300D—」—
‹single left-pointing angle quotation markU+2039Alt+0139‹Option+Shift+3
›single right-pointing angle quotation markU+203AAlt+0155›Option+Shift+4
【left black lenticular bracketU+3010—【—
】right black lenticular bracketU+3011—】—
⟨mathematical left angle bracketU+27E8—⟨—
⟩mathematical right angle bracketU+27E9—⟩—
{fullwidth left curly bracketU+FF5B—{—
}fullwidth right curly bracketU+FF5D—}—
〈left angle bracketU+3008—〈—
〉right angle bracketU+3009—〉—
﹤small less-thanU+FE64—﹤—
﹥small greater-thanU+FE65—﹥—
〚left white square bracketU+301A—〚—
〛right white square bracketU+301B—〛—
<fullwidth less-thanU+FF1C—<—
>fullwidth greater-thanU+FF1E—>—
〘left white tortoise shell bracketU+3018—〘—
〙right white tortoise shell bracketU+3019—〙—
《left double angle bracketU+300A—《—
》right double angle bracketU+300B—》—
﹝small left tortoise shell bracketU+FE5D—﹝—
﹞small right tortoise shell bracketU+FE5E—﹞—

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