Medium Flattened Left Parenthesis Ornament ❪

❪ (U+276A) is a standard Unicode character that you can copy and paste anywhere text is accepted. This page provides a concise reference with safe tips, internal links, and practical guidance so you can use it reliably across apps and platforms.

What it is and where it’s used: Medium Flattened Left Parenthesis Ornament is part of the Symbols family (block: Dingbats). If you need styled or decorative alternatives, try our Fancy Text tool to generate compatible text that works in most modern interfaces.

History & usage: History & usage: The symbol MEDIUM FLATTENED LEFT PARENTHESIS ORNAMENT, U+276A, is a decorative opening mark from the Dingbats block. In early and modern typography, such ornaments show opening groups or quoted text with a visual touch. It is used to delimit groups, parameters, or quoted text in writing and code. In practice, writers use it to start a quoted phrase or list item or to set off a parameter in a line of instruction. In code, it can mark the start of a parameter list or a quoted string in certain styles or fonts. The ornament is not a common everyday delimiter, so many fonts render it as a decorative curve rather than a strict symbol with special syntax. It often appears in specialty texts, design work, or materials that favor a formal or stylish look. Users choose it for a distinct visual effect or to match a design theme. Its role remains delimitation in both prose and code contexts, clarifying where a grouped element begins. The usage atom notes its function clearly: it brackets groups, parameters, or quoted text.

Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+276A in many development tools or editors. Some operating systems provide a character viewer or input palette that lets you search by name or code and insert the glyph into documents.

Display and fallback: if you see an empty box (tofu) or a placeholder rectangle, the active font might not include this codepoint. Switching to a font with broader Unicode coverage or using a fallback font usually fixes the issue. On the web, ensure the page’s font stack includes a general‑purpose fallback.

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