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Left Corner Bracket vs Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark

Left Corner Bracket
300C
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Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
00AB
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Property Comparison

Property 「 300C « 00AB
Name Left Corner Bracket Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Category Quotation Marks Quotation Marks
Block CJK Symbols and Punctuation Latin-1 Supplement
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Open Punctuation (Ps) Initial Punctuation (Pi)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 300C 00AB
Unicode U+300C U+00AB
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CSS \300C \00AB
JavaScript \u{300C} \u{AB}
Python \u300c \u00ab
UTF-8 e3 80 8c c2 ab

How to Distinguish

Both Left Corner Bracket and Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark are in the Quotation Marks category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.

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

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