Medium Flattened Left Parenthesis Ornament

U+276A

Medium Flattened Left Parenthesis Ornament is the Unicode character ❪ at codepoint U+276A in the Dingbats 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 Medium Flattened Left Parenthesis Ornament

To use the Medium Flattened Left Parenthesis Ornament 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: '\276A';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u276A' evaluates to ❪. In Python source, write '\u276A'.

The character encodes to E2 9D AA as UTF-8 bytes and 276A as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 10090.

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