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Left Corner Bracket symbol

Type :left_corner_bracket: · Punctuation

What 「 is for

The opening Japanese quotation mark, used where English would use a double quote. It is full width, so it takes a whole character cell and sits flush with the text around it in Japanese but looks conspicuously wide in an English sentence, which is often the effect people are after.

How to type 「

The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With Emoji Anywhere installed you can skip all of them and type :left_corner_bracket: in any text field instead, which is the same on every platform.

macOS

No direct shortcut. Use Edit → Emoji & Symbols, or switch to the Unicode Hex Input source and type 300C with Option held.

Windows

No Alt code. In Word, type 300C then press Alt + X. Elsewhere use the emoji panel with Win + Period, or Character Map.

Shortcodes

:left_corner_bracket:

On the web

HTML 「

Unicode U+300C

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