Symbols For Representing Angle Brackets
A variety of different symbols are used to represent angle brackets. In e-mail and other ASCII text it is common to use the less-than (<) and greater-than (>) signs to represent angle brackets. Unicode has three pairs of dedicated characters:
- U+2329 (〈) and U+232A (〉) (left/right-pointing angle bracket) which are deprecated
- U+27E8 (⟨) and U+27E9 (⟩) (mathematical left/right angle bracket)
- U+3008 (〈) and U+3009 (〉) (left/right angle bracket in Chinese punctuation)
In LaTeX the markup is \langle and \rangle: .
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