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Left Angle Bracket vs Right Angle Bracket

Left Angle Bracket
3008
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Right Angle Bracket
3009
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Property Comparison

Property 〈 3008 〉 3009
Name Left Angle Bracket Right Angle Bracket
Category Brackets & Braces Brackets & Braces
Block CJK Symbols and Punctuation CJK Symbols and Punctuation
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Open Punctuation (Ps) Close Punctuation (Pe)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 3008 3009
Unicode U+3008 U+3009
HTML Decimal 〈 〉
HTML Hex 〈 〉
CSS \3008 \3009
JavaScript \u{3008} \u{3009}
Python \u3008 \u3009
UTF-8 e3 80 88 e3 80 89

How to Distinguish

Both Left Angle Bracket and Right Angle Bracket belong to the Brackets & Braces category and the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.

Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use charCodeAt() in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.

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