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Left Arc Less-Than Bracket HTML entity ⦓
⦓ is the HTML entity for Left Arc Less-Than Bracket ⦓ (U+2993). Copy ⦓, ⦓ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
⦓- Code point
- U+2993
- Unicode name
- LEFT ARC LESS-THAN BRACKET
- Block
- Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
- Category
- Open punctuation (Ps)
- Since
- Unicode 3.2
- Defined in
- 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: "\2993";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2993"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2993"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{LEFT ARC LESS-THAN BRACKET}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%A6%93Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 A6 933 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 29931 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
⦓ writes U+2993 (Left Arc Less-Than Bracket), an opening bracket from the Unicode Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block, encoded since Unicode 3.2. Specialist notation like this usually belongs in MathML, which positions it correctly; the entity is for occasional use in running text.
The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.
More advanced maths and arrows
⦕Double Left Arc Greater-Than Bracket⦑Left Angle Bracket with Dot⦖Double Right Arc Less-Than Bracket⦐Right Square Bracket with Tick in Top Corner⦚Vertical Zigzag Line⦏Left Square Bracket with Tick in Bottom Corner⦜Right Angle Variant with Square⦎Right Square Bracket with Tick in Bottom Corner
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).