Matching Brackets in Unicode

Xah Lee, 2010-08-13, …, 2012-01-23

This page shows all matching brackets in Unicode.

ASCII: ( ) [ ] { }

Full width variant: （）［］｛｝

White variants: ⦅ ⦆ 〚〛 ⦃ ⦄

Common Western quotation: “ ” ‘ ’ ‹ › « »

Asian: 「」〈〉《》【】〔〕 ⦗ ⦘

Asian white variant: 『』〖〗〘〙

Half width variant: ｢｣

Math: ⟦ ⟧ ⟨ ⟩ ⟪ ⟫ ⟮ ⟯ ⟬ ⟭

Decorative: ❛ ❜ ❝ ❞ ❨ ❩ ❪ ❫ ❴ ❵ ❬ ❭ ❮ ❯ ❰ ❱ ❲ ❳

Vertical: ⏜ ⏝ ⎴ ⎵ ⏞ ⏟ ⏠ ⏡

Vertical representation form: ﹁﹂﹃﹄︹︺︻︼ ︗ ︘ ︿﹀︽︾﹇﹈︷︸

Angle brackets: 〈 〉 ⦑ ⦒ ⧼ ⧽

Other: ﹙ ﹚ ﹛ ﹜ ﹝ ﹞ ⸢ ⸣ ⸤ ⸥ ⦋ ⦌ ⦍ ⦎ ⦏ ⦐ ⁅ ⁆ ⦓ ⦔ ⦕ ⦖ 󠁛 󠁝 󠁻 󠁽

Paraphrase: ⸜ ⸝ Omission: ⸌ ⸍ Substitution: ⸂ ⸃ ⸄ ⸅ Transposition: ⸉ ⸊

Unicode Character Shows Blank, Question Mark, Gibberish

The chars here must be a matching bracket pair with respect to their semantics, as indicated in the char's Unicode name.

In particular, the following chars are not shown on this page:

Chars that merely have the appearance of a matching bracket. For example, the ASCII < > are not included.
Char pair that are simply mirrors images of each ohter (e.g. many math operators ⊆ ⊇).
Chars that are positioned together to form a large bracket, are not included. e.g. those often used in typesetting math.
Proper math operators in the form of matching brackets. e.g. ⌈ ⌉ ⌊ ⌋ ⦇ ⦈ ⦉ ⦊. See: Math Symbols in Unicode for those.

The chars collected here is not complete. I estimate there are maybe 20 pairs more that should be added here.

For the use of Asian Brackets 「」〈〉【】, …, see: Intro to Chinese Punctuation.