Light Right Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament HTML entity &rbbrk;

&rbbrk;: HTML entity for Light Right Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament ❳ (U+2773), with decimal, hex, CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes to copy.

Entity: &rbbrk;
Code point: U+2773
Unicode name: LIGHT RIGHT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET ORNAMENT
Block: Dingbats
Category: Close punctuation (Pe)
Since: Unicode 3.2
Defined in: HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML named	`&rbbrk;`Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal	`❳`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`❳`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\2773";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u2773"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u2773"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{LIGHT RIGHT TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET ORNAMENT}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%E2%9D%B3`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 9D B3`3 bytes.
UTF-16	`2773`1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

&rbbrk; writes U+2773 (Light Right Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament), a closing bracket from the Unicode Dingbats block, encoded since Unicode 3.2. Typographic punctuation like this is usually inserted by an editor or a smart quotes setting; the entity is handy in hand-written HTML.

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.

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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).