Fancy Brackets

What this page is for

This is a catalogue of bracket characters, shown so you can pick a pair and put your text between them. It is deliberately narrower than the text decorator, which builds a complete decorated name from several symbol types and lets you preview it. If you want to try a bracket around your own text, use that tool. If you want to look up what a particular bracket is called and where it comes from, you are in the right place.

Brackets always come as pairs, and in most scripts the left and right forms are different characters. Copying only one is a common slip. In right-to-left text there is one further quirk: the visual shape of an opening bracket flips depending on text direction, an effect called bidirectional mirroring. If you mix Arabic or Hebrew with these brackets, check the result.

East Asian corner and lenticular brackets

「 」 are CORNER BRACKETs (U+300C and U+300D). In Japanese and Chinese they are the quotation marks, and 『 』 (WHITE CORNER BRACKET) are the inner quotation marks, used for quotes inside quotes and for book titles. 【 】 (BLACK LENTICULAR BRACKET) are thick, curved brackets used for emphasis, titles and headings. 〖 〗 are the white, outlined version and 〔 〕 are tortoise shell brackets, an old publishing style still seen in citations.

In an English bio none of that matters, because the shapes are what people want. 「Name」 is neat and light; 【Name】 is bold and works well for a gamer tag or a title. These characters are fullwidth: they take up the width of a square character box, with extra empty space on the inner or outer side. That gap makes the framed text look slightly isolated, which some people like and others do not.

Angle brackets and mathematical brackets

《 》 are DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKETs, used in Chinese for titles of books and films, while 〈 〉 are the single versions. The mathematical ⟨ ⟩ look similar but are designed for maths, where they mean an inner product or an average. They are not the same characters as the keyboard < and >, which are LESS-THAN and GREATER-THAN SIGN; do not use those where text could be mistaken for markup. ⟦ ⟧ are white square brackets, used in logic and programming-language semantics, and ⟪ ⟫ are mathematical double angle brackets. The ⌈ ⌉ pair is the ceiling function, and ⌊ ⌋ is floor. They are appropriate as decoration but not as brackets in real maths unless you mean those functions.

Dingbat brackets

The Dingbats block contains ornamental brackets from printers’ fonts. ❨ ❩ are medium parentheses ornaments, ❪ ❫ are the flattened versions, ❬ ❭ are angle brackets, ❮ ❯ are heavy quotation-style angles, ❰ ❱ are heavy angle brackets, and ❴ ❵ are curly brackets. They are heavier than the keyboard versions and have a stylised look, but they are plain text, so they take your text colour and size.

Decorative wings

꧁ ꧂ are Javanese RERENGGAN, punctuation used in Javanese writing to frame a passage, and ༺ ༻ are Tibetan gug rtags marks, used to mark the start and end of a passage. Both have drifted into gaming and social names as ornamental wings, entirely separate from their original use. If you use them in a name that a Javanese or Tibetan reader will see, they may notice. ⊱ ⊰ are mathematical relation symbols (SUCCEEDS UNDER RELATION and PRECEDES UNDER RELATION) that look like curled leaf shapes.

Text and emoji presentation

None of the brackets above has an emoji form, so they stay in your text colour everywhere they display. The risk with brackets is not colour but missing glyphs: script characters like ꧁ and ༺ need a font for their language.

Where brackets work

Name and display fields differ by platform, and many games keep a restricted list of allowed characters. Corner and lenticular brackets are the most commonly accepted. Rules can change, and we have not verified every field, so test the name in the field after saving. The Free Fire name style and BGMI name style pages record what we have documented.

How to type brackets

1. Phone input methods. Add a Japanese or Chinese keyboard and type the bracket key to get 「」 or 【】 directly.
2. Word on Windows. Type 300C and press Alt then X for 「, and 300D for 」. Use 3010 and 3011 for 【 and 】.
3. Mac. Control, Command and Space opens the Character Viewer; search “bracket”.
4. Text replacement. On iOS or macOS, map a short code such as “brk” to 【】, then move the cursor between the pair.
5. Alt codes. None of these has a legacy Alt code.

Accessibility

Each bracket is announced by name, so 【Name】 may be read as “left black lenticular bracket, Name, right black lenticular bracket”. Nested or repeated brackets multiply that. A single pair around a name is acceptable. Do not put brackets around long text, and do not use them where meaning depends on them, such as a button label. See the fancy text accessibility guide. The border and divider pages cover lines and frames, and crown symbols pair well with brackets in gaming names.