《 is the Unicode character LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET, code point U+300A (decimal 12298) in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write 《, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E3 80 8A.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+300A |
| Decimal | 12298 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E3 80 8A |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 300A |
| UTF-32 | 0000300A |
| HTML decimal | 《 |
| HTML hex | 《 |
| CSS | \300A |
| JavaScript | \u300A |
| JSON | \u300A |
| Python | \u300A |
| Python by name | \N{LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET} |
| Java, C# | \u300A |
| Rust, Swift | \u{300A} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u300A |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E3%80%8A |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET |
| Code point | U+300A (decimal 12298) |
| Block | CJK Symbols and Punctuation (U+3000–U+303F) |
| General category | Ps: Opening punctuation |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | Yes |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in CJK Symbols and Punctuation
- 。 U+3002 Ideographic Full Stop
- 〃 U+3003 Ditto Mark
- 〄 U+3004 Japanese Industrial Standard Symbol
- 々 U+3005 Ideographic Iteration Mark
- 〆 U+3006 Ideographic Closing Mark
- 〇 U+3007 Ideographic Number Zero
- 〈 U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
- 〉 U+3009 Right Angle Bracket
- 》 U+300B Right Double Angle Bracket
- 「 U+300C Left Corner Bracket
- 」 U+300D Right Corner Bracket
- 『 U+300E Left White Corner Bracket
- 』 U+300F Right White Corner Bracket
- 【 U+3010 Left Black Lenticular Bracket
- 】 U+3011 Right Black Lenticular Bracket
- 〒 U+3012 Postal Mark
All 64 characters: CJK Symbols and Punctuation.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for 《?
- Use 《 (decimal) or 《 (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+300A?
- E3 80 8A (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E3%80%8A.
- How do I write U+300A in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u300A. Python: \u300A.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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