Left White Corner Bracket symbol
Type :left_white_corner_bracket: · Punctuation
What 『 is for
The hollow version, used for a quotation inside a quotation, and for the titles of books, films and albums. It is the Japanese equivalent of italicising a title rather than of scare quotes.
How to type 『
The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With
Emoji Anywhere
installed you can skip all of them and type
:left_white_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 300E with Option
held.
Windows
No Alt code. In Word, type 300E then press Alt +
X. Elsewhere use the emoji panel with Win + Period, or Character Map.
Shortcodes
:left_white_corner_bracket: On the web
HTML 『
Unicode U+300E
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