Mathematical Left Angle Bracket

U+27E8

Mathematical Left Angle Bracket is the Unicode character ⟨ at codepoint U+27E8 in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

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How to Use Mathematical Left Angle Bracket

To use the Mathematical Left Angle Bracket symbol (⟨) in HTML, insert the entity ⟨ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⟨ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\27E8';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u27E8' evaluates to ⟨. In Python source, write '\u27E8'.

The character encodes to E2 9F A8 as UTF-8 bytes and 27E8 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 10216.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026