Left corner bracket

Meaning and uses

The opening corner bracket, used as a quotation mark in Japanese. In aesthetic text it frames a word or a title neatly: 「 hello 」.

Unicode details

「 is the Unicode character named LEFT CORNER BRACKET, code point U+300C, in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as an opening bracket (general category Ps).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type 「

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 300C and then press Alt+X to turn the code into 「.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “left corner bracket”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 300c, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use 「. In a CSS content property, use "\300C".