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Mathematical Left Angle Bracket HTML entity ⟨
⟨ is the HTML entity for Mathematical Left Angle Bracket ⟨ (U+27E8). Copy ⟨, ⟨ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
⟨- Also written
⟨⟨- Code point
- U+27E8
- Unicode name
- MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET
- Block
- Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
- Category
- Open punctuation (Ps)
- Since
- Unicode 3.2
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ⟨Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ⟨Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ⟨Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\27E8";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u27E8"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u27e8"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%9F%A8Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9F A83 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 27E81 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
⟨ writes U+27E8 (Mathematical Left Angle Bracket), an opening bracket from the Unicode Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block, encoded since Unicode 3.2. For more than a symbol or two, MathML, supported in all major browsers since 2023, gives proper maths spacing and layout.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).