RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET·U+3009

Character Information

Code Point
U+3009
HEX
3009
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Close Punctuation

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
E3 80 89
11100011 10000000 10001001
UTF16 (big Endian)
30 09
00110000 00001001
UTF16 (little Endian)
09 30
00001001 00110000
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 30 09
00000000 00000000 00110000 00001001
UTF32 (little Endian)
09 30 00 00
00001001 00110000 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
〉
URI Encoded
%E3%80%89

Description

The Unicode character U+3009 is a typographical symbol known as the "RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET". It has a decimal value of 12977 in the Unicode Standard, which is used for representing textual data in various computing systems. This character holds significant importance in digital texts, serving its primary function to indicate a direction in syntax such as in mathematical expressions and logical statements. In programming languages, it is often used to denote a right angle or a greater-than operator, comparing two values or elements in an array. This symbol is not specific to any particular language or culture but holds universal application in the realm of computer science and digital communication.

How to type the symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 12297 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.

  1. Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout

    The character has the Unicode code point U+3009. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 3 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of 0x0800 to 0xffff.

    Therefore we know that the UTF-8 encoding will be done over 16 bits within the final 24 bits and that it will have the format: 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx
    Where the x are the payload bits.

    UTF-8 Encoding bit layout by codepoint range
    Codepoint RangeBytesBit patternPayload length
    U+0000 - U+007F10xxxxxxx7 bits
    U+0080 - U+07FF2110xxxxx 10xxxxxx11 bits
    U+0800 - U+FFFF31110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx16 bits
    U+10000 - U+10FFFF411110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx21 bits
  2. Step 2: Obtain the payload bits:

    Convert the hexadecimal code point U+3009 to binary: 00110000 00001001. Those are the payload bits.

  3. Step 3: Fill in the bits to match the bit pattern:

    Obtain the final bytes by arranging the paylod bits to match the bit layout:
    11100011 10000000 10001001