How do I type the ❳ light right tortoise shell bracket ornament symbol?

On Windows, type 2773 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 2773. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.

What is the code for ❳?

Light Right Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament is U+2773, written in HTML as &rbbrk; and in LaTeX as \rbrbrak. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.

What kind of character is ❳?

Light Right Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament is filed under Closing punctuation in the Dingbats block, and was introduced in Unicode 3.2. This is a closing bracket, paired with an opening character in the same block. Bracket matching in editors uses the category, not the appearance.

U+2773 · Closing punctuation

HTML entity

&rbbrk;

LaTeX

\rbrbrak

Light Right Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament Symbol ❳

❳ is light right tortoise shell bracket ornament. Write it in HTML as &rbbrk; or paste the character directly. It was added in Unicode 3.2, and Unicode files it under Closing punctuation.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+2773`
HTML hex	`❳`
HTML decimal	`❳`
CSS	`\2773`
JavaScript	`\u{2773}`
Python	`\U00002773`
Java / C#	`\u2773`
Rust	`\u{2773}`
Swift	`\u{2773}`
PHP	`\u{2773}`
URL encoded	`%E2%9D%B3`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 9D B3`
UTF-16 bytes	`2773`
Base64	`4p2z`
Decimal	`10099`
HTML entity	`&rbbrk;`
LaTeX	`\rbrbrak`
Category	Closing punctuation (Pe)
Introduced	Unicode 3.2

Will ❳ survive being pasted?

Normalisation. Yes. ❳ is unchanged by NFKC, so it survives normalising systems intact.
Legacy encodings. ❳ is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.

Unicode cross-references

The standard points readers of ❳ at these characters — usually because they look alike, or because one is the correct choice where the other is often used by mistake.

〕U+3015right tortoise shell bracket

Nearby in Dingbats

Zapf Dingbats, encoded character for character: ornamental stars, crosses, check marks, scissors and pointing hands. The check marks and crosses here are the ones most often pasted into documents and spreadsheets.

All 192 characters in Dingbats →

How to type ❳

Windows	Type `2773` then press `Alt`+`X`
macOS	Press `Ctrl`+`Cmd`+`Space`, then search for “light right tortoise shell bracket ornament”
Linux	Press `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`U`, type `2773`, press `Enter`
HTML	`&rbbrk;`

About Unicode’s Closing punctuation category

This is a closing bracket, paired with an opening character in the same block. Bracket matching in editors uses the category, not the appearance.

Frequently asked questions

How do I type the ❳ light right tortoise shell bracket ornament symbol?: On Windows, type 2773 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 2773. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
What is the code for ❳?: Light Right Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament is U+2773, written in HTML as &rbbrk; and in LaTeX as \rbrbrak. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
What kind of character is ❳?: Light Right Tortoise Shell Bracket Ornament is filed under Closing punctuation in the Dingbats block, and was introduced in Unicode 3.2. This is a closing bracket, paired with an opening character in the same block. Bracket matching in editors uses the category, not the appearance.