Left Lenticular Bracket symbol
Type :left_lenticular_bracket: · Punctuation
Unicode name Left Black Lenticular Bracket · CJK Symbols and Punctuation block · added in Unicode 1.1, 1993
What 【 is for
The heavy filled bracket that opens a label. Japanese and Chinese headlines use 【 to tag a post before its title, in the way English writes BREAKING or a bracketed category, and it has spread to video titles and forum posts everywhere.
How to type 【
The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With
Emoji Anywhere
installed you can skip all of them and type
:left_lenticular_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 3010 with Option
held.
Windows
No Alt code. In Word, type 3010 then press Alt +
X. Elsewhere use the emoji panel with Win + Period, or Character Map.
Shortcodes
:left_lenticular_bracket: On the web
HTML 【
Unicode U+3010
JavaScript '\u{3010}'
CSS "\3010"
Python '\u3010'
URL %E3%80%90
More from punctuation
:reference_mark: ⁂ :asterism: 「 :left_corner_bracket: 」 :right_corner_bracket: 『 :left_white_corner_bracket: 』 :right_white_corner_bracket: 】 :right_lenticular_bracket: — :emdash: – :endash: … :dots: • :dot: · :middle_dot: Every symbol and kaomoji is in the full gallery .
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