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Bracket symbols are the pair of ornamental marks people wrap around a nickname — ꧁ ꧂, 『 』, 【 】, ༺ ༻. Each one is a single Unicode character, so it copies like a letter and costs exactly one slot against a name-length limit. They are the standard frame for a Free Fire or PUBG Mobile nickname and for an Instagram display name — the three fields these characters get pasted into most. Below: every common bracket with its codepoint, ready-made frames you can paste a name into, and a count of what actually fits in a twelve-character game field.
Every bracket symbol, with the codepoint behind it
These are the ones worth knowing. Tap any card to copy it. The U+ value under each glyph is the character’s real address in Unicode, and the label under that is its official name — not a nickname a website invented for it.
Two of those names are worth pausing on, because they explain a lot about why these characters behave strangely. ꧁ and ꧂ are Javanese Left and Right Rerenggan (U+A9C1, U+A9C2) — page ornaments from Javanese manuscript typography, not brackets at all. ꒰ and ꒱ are Yi Radical Shy and Yi Radical Vep (U+A4B0, U+A4B1), components of the Yi script used in south-west China. Nothing about them was designed for gamer tags. They ended up there because they were the prettiest curved shapes anyone could find in a font that was already installed.
Ready-made bracket frames — copy one, swap the middle
These are complete decorations somebody has already assembled. Copy one, delete the name or the placeholder in the centre, and type yours in its place. If you would rather not edit by hand, put your name into the generator at the top of this page and it will do the wrapping for you.
How to put brackets around your name in three steps
The whole job takes about fifteen seconds.
- Copy the opening mark. Tap it once in the tables above. Copy the closing mark separately — they are two different characters, and a pair is not a single item.
- Paste, type, paste. In the name field: paste the opening mark, type your name, paste the closing mark. Doing it in that order avoids the cursor-jumping that happens when you paste around text you have already typed.
- Save, then look at the result. If the field refuses the name, it is almost always length rather than the characters themselves. Take the decoration back one mark at a time until it saves.
Which bracket pairs actually fit a twelve-character name
Free Fire’s nickname field runs out at around twelve characters, and it counts characters rather than visible width. A bracket pair takes two of them before you have typed a single letter. The elaborate frames cost far more than they look like they should:
| Frame | Codepoints | Characters used | Left for your name in a 12-slot field |
|---|---|---|---|
| ꧁ ꧂ | U+A9C1, U+A9C2 | 2 | 10 |
| 『 』 | U+300E, U+300F | 2 | 10 |
| 【 】 | U+3010, U+3011 | 2 | 10 |
| ༺ ༻ | U+0F3A, U+0F3B | 2 | 10 |
| ❰ ❱ | U+2770, U+2771 | 2 | 10 |
| ༺𓆩 𓆪༻ | U+0F3A, U+131A9, U+131AA, U+0F3B | 4 | 8 |
| ꧁༒☬ ☬༒꧂ | U+A9C1, U+0F12, U+262C ×2, U+0F12, U+A9C2 | 6 | 6 |
| ⋆⊱༻𖥸༺⊰⋆ | 7 codepoints across four scripts | 7 | 5 |
| ───୨ৎ─── | U+2500 ×6, U+0B68, U+09CE | 8 | 4 |
Counts measured on 1 September 2026 by reading each string’s codepoints directly. Fields that count UTF-16 units rather than characters will charge more for the Egyptian hieroglyphs, which sit above the basic plane and take two units each.
The pairs that quietly go wrong
Four failures account for nearly every “it looked fine when I copied it” message we get.
- Two opening marks. ꧁ and ꧂ look near-identical at small sizes. Copying ꧁ twice gives you ꧁name꧁, which reads as a mistake rather than a frame. Check the codepoint if you are unsure: opening is U+A9C1, closing is U+A9C2.
- A frame that is longer than the field. The name saves, the decoration is silently truncated, and you are left with an opening bracket and no closing one.
- Mixed scripts inside one frame. ⋆⊱༻𖥸༺⊰⋆ draws characters from mathematics, Tibetan and Bamum in one string. A device missing any one of those fonts shows a box in the middle of an otherwise perfect name.
- Reversed corners. ⌜ is Top Left Corner and ⌟ is Bottom Right Corner — a diagonal pair, not a left-right pair. Used as a bracket they sit at different heights, which is fine if you meant it and looks like a typo if you did not.
Symbols in a frame that carry a meaning
Some of the characters inside popular frames are not decoration. ☬, the mark in the middle of the ꧁༒☬ style, is Adi Shakti (U+262C) — the Khanda, an emblem of the Sikh faith. ༒ is Tibetan Mark Rgya Gram Shad, a punctuation mark from Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts. Neither is off-limits, and neither carries any technical risk. It is simply worth knowing what you are wearing on your profile, because most pages that hand you these strings never mention it.
The reverse case is funnier: the ୨ৎ “heart” that divides so many bios is not a heart symbol at all. It is Oriya Digit Two followed by Bengali Letter Khanda Ta — a numeral and a consonant that happen to look like one when set side by side.
More bracket frames to copy
A second set, drawn from a different pool so it does not repeat what is above.
Kaomoji built out of brackets
Kaomoji are the other thing brackets are for. Every face below is assembled from the same curved and cornered marks in the tables above — ₍ ₎, ꒰ ꒱, ૮ ა — with eyes and a mouth set between them. They contain no emoji at all, which is why they survive name fields that strip pictures out and keep them out.
Where a bracket name will actually be accepted
Brackets are Unicode text, so the question is never whether the character exists — it is whether the field you are pasting into allows anything beyond letters and numbers.
| Field | Brackets accepted? | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Free Fire nickname | Yes | Roughly 12 characters total, decoration included. |
| PUBG Mobile / BGMI nickname | Yes | The 14-character figure repeated across fan sites has no traceable Krafton source; treat it as a rule of thumb. |
| Instagram display name | Yes | The @username does not accept them — only a–z, 0–9, dot, underscore. |
| TikTok display name | Yes | Same split: handle is plain, display name takes Unicode. |
| Discord server nickname | Yes | The account username itself is lowercase letters, numbers, dot and underscore only. |
| Roblox / Minecraft account name | No | Alphanumeric and underscore only. Use a guild or display name instead where one exists. |
Checked 1 September 2026.
The full field-by-field table, along with every other symbol group we hold, lives on the NickSymbol home page.
Bracket symbols FAQ
Why does ꧁ show as an empty box on my phone?
Your device has no font covering the Javanese block. The character is intact and other people may see it perfectly — an empty box is a rendering gap on the machine looking at it, never damage to the text. Corner brackets 『 』 and lenticular brackets 【 】 ship in far more fonts, so use those when the name has to look right everywhere.
Do brackets get names banned?
No. Punishments attach to what a name says — impersonation, slurs, a clan tag that breaks conduct rules — not to the characters used to decorate it. Wrapping a name you were already allowed to use changes nothing about whether it is allowed.
Can I use brackets in an Instagram or TikTok @username?
No. Both restrict the handle to letters, numbers, dots and underscores. The styled names you see on those apps are display names, which are a separate field and do accept Unicode.
Is ꧁꧂ the same as 『』?
Only in the sense that both frame a name. ꧁꧂ are Javanese page ornaments; 『』 are Japanese quotation marks. They come from unrelated scripts and are covered by different fonts, which is why one can render on a device that draws the other as a box.
How do I get the pair to sit tight against my name?
Do not type a space after the opening mark or before the closing one. If a frame you copied already contains spaces, delete them — the extra spaces are what make a short name look lost inside a wide decoration.
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