Presentation Form For Vertical Left Double Angle Bracket

Group: Punctuation

Keywords

punctuation

About this character

Presentation Form For Vertical Left Double Angle Bracket belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+FE3D. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+FE3D
Hex: FE3D
Decimal: 65085
HTML: ︽
CSS: \FE3D
JavaScript: \uFE3D
Python: \uFE3D
UTF-8: EF B8 BD

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.