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Glyph for U+3008
Source: Noto Sans Tai Le

U+3008 Left Angle Bracket

U+3008 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+3000 to U+303F CJK Symbols and Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Open Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Bopomofo, Hangul, Han, Hiragana, Katakana, Yi.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is mirrored. Its corresponding mirrored glyph is Glyph for U+3009 Right Angle Bracket. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+3008 behaves as Open Punctuation regarding line breaks. It has type Close for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “open angle bracket” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: angle bracket, bracket, chevron, diamond brackets, pointy bracket, tuple.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

A bracket, as used in British English, is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the directionality of the context.

There are four primary types of brackets. In British usage they are known as round brackets (or simply brackets), square brackets, curly brackets, and angle brackets; in American usage they are respectively known as parentheses, brackets, braces, and chevrons. There are also various less common symbols considered brackets.

Various forms of brackets are used in mathematics, with specific mathematical meanings, often for denoting specific mathematical functions and subformulas.

Representations

System Representation
12296
UTF-8 E3 80 88
UTF-16 30 08
UTF-32 00 00 30 08
URL-Quoted %E3%80%88
HTML hex reference 〈
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 〈
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A1 B4
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) A1 D2
Adobe Glyph List anglebracketleft

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name LEFT ANGLE BRACKET
Unicode 1 Name OPENING ANGLE BRACKET
Block CJK Symbols and Punctuation
General Category Open Punctuation
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
Case Folding Glyph for U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Close
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Mirrored Glyph Glyph for U+3009 Right Angle Bracket
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+3009 Right Angle Bracket
Bidi Paired Bracket Type Open
East Asian Width Wide
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Open Punctuation
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+3008 Left Angle Bracket
Script Extension Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana Yi
Vertical Orientation Tr