꧁ and ꧂ are not decorations invented for nicknames — they are Javanese punctuation marks, U+A9C1 and U+A9C2. Most name frames are borrowed the same way from real writing systems: Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, even Egyptian hieroglyphs. Knowing what each piece is tells you which ones pair up, which ones break in games, and which ones to avoid.
Type a name in the box above and the frame tab wraps it in fourteen frames from the shared FontFancy generator; tap one to copy. Below, every popular frame character is decoded, then sorted into a copy library by mood.
What you are actually pasting
Each frame character has an official Unicode name and a home script. The table lists the ones people paste most, with the code point you can search for if you ever need to find a frame again from a copied name.
| Frame | Script and Unicode name | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
꧁꧂U+A9C1 U+A9C2 | Javanese punctuation Javanese Left Rerenggan / Javanese Right Rerenggan | Ornamental marks from the Javanese script block, made to enclose text. Not mirrored, so they do not flip in right-to-left text. |
༺༻U+0F3A U+0F3B | Tibetan brackets Tibetan Mark Gug Rtags Gyon / Tibetan Mark Gug Rtags Gyas | A true left/right bracket pair from Tibetan. Mirrored like ordinary brackets. |
『』U+300E U+300F | CJK white corner brackets Left White Corner Bracket / Right White Corner Bracket | Used for quotes and titles in Chinese and Japanese typesetting. |
【】U+3010 U+3011 | CJK black lenticular brackets Left Black Lenticular Bracket / Right Black Lenticular Bracket | Common in Chinese and Japanese headings; heavy and easy to read at small sizes. |
〖〗U+3016 U+3017 | CJK white lenticular brackets Left White Lenticular Bracket / Right White Lenticular Bracket | The outlined sibling of 【】. |
𓆩𓆪U+131A9 U+131AA | Egyptian hieroglyphs Egyptian Hieroglyph L006 / Egyptian Hieroglyph L006A | Two signs from the Gardiner list that happen to face each other. Many phones have no font for them, so they show as boxes. |
𓆰U+131B0 | Egyptian hieroglyph Egyptian Hieroglyph M002 | Often used as a left frame, but it is a different sign (M002), not the partner of 𓆪 — so 𓆰♕𓆪 is lopsided. |
𓊈𓊉U+13288 U+13289 | Egyptian hieroglyphs Egyptian Hieroglyph O036C / Egyptian Hieroglyph O036D | Another facing pair, O036C and O036D. |
𒆜U+1219C | Cuneiform sign Cuneiform Sign Kaskal | A Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sign, used as a spiky ornament next to 𓊈𓊉. |
༒U+0F12 | Tibetan mark Tibetan Mark Rgya Gram Shad | A Tibetan punctuation mark, often placed on both sides of a clan name. |
࿐U+0FD0 | Tibetan mark Tibetan Mark Bska- Shog Gi Mgo Rgyan | An ornamental Tibetan head mark that trails off to the right — popular as a name ending. |
ঔৣU+0994 U+09E3 | Bengali letter + vowel sign Bengali Letter Au / Bengali Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll | A letter (AU) plus a combining vowel sign. The second part is a combining mark, which some name fields remove. |
彡U+5F61 | CJK ideograph Cjk Unified Ideograph-5F61 | Kangxi radical 59, three slanted strokes. Reads as “speed lines” beside a star: ★彡. |
乂U+4E42 | CJK ideograph Cjk Unified Ideograph-4E42 | A Chinese character shaped like a crossed X; used as a clan-tag bracket. |
〆U+3006 | Ideographic closing mark Ideographic Closing Mark | A Japanese mark meaning a close or deadline; looks like a flourish. |
ツU+30C4 | Katakana TU Katakana Letter Tu | A Japanese syllable that happens to look like a smiling face. |
꒰꒱U+A4B0 U+A4B1 | Yi radicals Yi Radical Shy / Yi Radical Vep | Two radicals from the Yi syllabary, borrowed as soft round brackets. Not mirrored. |
ʚɞU+029A U+025E | Latin phonetic letters Latin Small Letter Closed Open E / Latin Small Letter Closed Reversed Open E | Closed open-e letters from the phonetic alphabet, read together as butterfly wings. |
ღU+10E6 | Georgian letter Georgian Letter Ghan | The Georgian letter GHAN, used as a heart-like swirl. |
☬U+262C | Khanda (Sikh emblem) Adi Shakti | Unicode names it ADI SHAKTI. It is a religious symbol of Sikhism — many people find it disrespectful in joke or gaming names, so we leave it out of the copy lists below. |
Names and code points taken from the Unicode Character Database. A decorated name copied from someone else’s profile can be decoded the same way: paste it into any “Unicode character lookup” tool and match the code points against this table.
Frame library by mood
Frames here come without a name inside, with a space where your text goes. Paste one, put the cursor in the middle, and type or paste your styled name. Classic pairs keep a name readable; the stacked and cute frames are louder and cost more characters.
Classic bracket pairs (18)
Royal, clan and status frames (20)
Stacks of two or three pieces — a Javanese outer pair around a Tibetan inner pair is the classic clan look. Labels such as OWNER or Moderator are best kept for servers where they are true.
Soft and cute frames (16)
Frames with emoji inside (12)
The emoji in these render in colour and look different on each phone brand. The frame around them stays the same.
Kaomoji wearing a frame (18)
Many popular kaomoji are built on the same Yi radicals ꒰ ꒱ used as frames above — the face simply sits where a name would.
One-sided ornaments (12)
Not every name needs a pair. These sit on one side only, usually the end: Riya࿐, Ace〆, Kai亗.
Build your own frame in four steps
- Style the name first. Generate it in the tool at the top — a gothic fraktur name suits heavy clan frames, while script or small caps suits soft ones.
- Pick the outer pair. Choose from the classic list; check the pairing chart below so the right piece really mirrors the left.
- Add at most one inner layer. A second pair or a symbol like ♔ inside the brackets is enough. A third layer usually pushes past name limits.
- Count before you save. Paste the result into the game or app preview and check the length, using the cost table in the next section.
| Left | Right | Pairs well with | Avoid pairing with |
|---|---|---|---|
| ꧁ | ꧂ | ༺ ༻ inside, bold fraktur names | ꧁ on both sides (both face the same way) |
| ༺ | ༻ | ꧁ ꧂ outside, ♔ or ⚜ in the middle | ꒰ ꒱ (the curves clash) |
| 『 | 』 | Small caps, monospace | Emoji-heavy names |
| 【 | 】 | Bold sans, clan tags | A second heavy pair inside |
| 𓆩 | 𓆪 | A single crown or heart between | 𓆰 — it is a different hieroglyph, not the left half |
| ꒰ | ꒱ | Kaomoji faces, cute script names | ꧁ ꧂ outside (mixes two moods) |
| ʚ | ɞ | Soft names, a heart ♡ between | Heavy black brackets |
If you want more symbols to put inside a frame — hearts, stars, crowns — the symbols for names collection groups them by shape, and the decoration set on the FontFancy homepage adds dividers and sparkles.
How many characters a frame costs
A frame that looks like two small marks can cost far more than two characters. Hieroglyphs and cuneiform sit outside the Basic Multilingual Plane and count double in UTF-16, and combining letters such as the tiny i a m stacked on ᴠɪᴘ are separate characters you cannot see.
| Frame (with a space) | Characters | UTF-16 units | Code points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ꧁ ꧂ | 3 | 3 | U+A9C1 U+0020 U+A9C2 |
| ꧁༺ ༻꧂ | 5 | 5 | U+A9C1 U+0F3A U+0020 U+0F3B U+A9C2 |
| 𓆩 𓆪 | 3 | 5 | U+131A9 U+0020 U+131AA |
| ꧁𓊈𒆜 𒆜𓊉꧂ | 7 | 11 | U+A9C1 U+13288 U+1219C U+0020 U+1219C U+13289 U+A9C2 |
| ᴠͥɪͣᴘͫ | 6 | 6 | U+1D20 U+0365 U+026A U+0363 U+1D18 U+036B |
| ঔৣ | 2 | 2 | U+0994 U+09E3 |
| 『 』 | 3 | 3 | U+300E U+0020 U+300F |
The same double-counting affects styled letters, which is why a bold name inside a stacked frame is the most common reason a game says “name too long”. For a name limit of 12 to 16 characters, one classic pair plus a styled name is usually the maximum.
Frames that break, flip or offend
Three things go wrong with frames, and each one comes from what the character really is.
Stripped marks
Combining characters — the small letters in ᴠͥɪͣᴘͫ, the circle in ✮⃝, the vowel sign in ঔৣ — attach to the character before them. Some name filters delete combining marks, leaving a frame with pieces missing. If a frame loses bits after saving, switch to one made only of standalone characters, such as 【 】 or ꧁ ꧂.
Boxes on other phones
Egyptian hieroglyphs and cuneiform need fonts that many Android phones and game clients do not ship. A frame that looks perfect on your device can appear as two empty boxes to everyone else. CJK brackets and ꧁ ꧂ are far more widely supported.
Frames that flip in right-to-left names
Ordinary brackets such as 『』, 【】 and ༺༻ are marked as mirrored in Unicode: in a right-to-left name written in Urdu or Arabic letters they swap shape so they still face the name. ꧁ ꧂ and ꒰ ꒱ are not mirrored, so in the same name they can end up facing outward. For right-to-left names, prefer a mirrored pair.
Religious symbols
☬ is the Khanda, the emblem of Sikhism, and ✝ ☪ ॐ are religious symbols too. They are not in our copy lists. If your name is an expression of your own faith that is your choice; used as decoration in a gaming tag, they often cause offence and reports.
Framed names and templates
Twenty first names, each in a different style and frame. The label shows the recipe, so you can rebuild the look with your own name. Game-specific limits are collected in our fonts for game names guide, and ideas for the name itself are in nickname fonts.
Framed first names (20)
Templates with a sample word (12)
These come with a placeholder — name, text or a sample word. Replace it with your own; to keep the empty-looking gaps some templates use, see invisible characters.
Questions about name frames
What is the ꧁꧂ symbol called?
꧁ and ꧂ are JAVANESE LEFT RERENGGAN and JAVANESE RIGHT RERENGGAN, code points U+A9C1 and U+A9C2. They are ornamental punctuation from the Javanese script that nickname makers borrowed as a decorative bracket pair.
How do I put my name inside ꧁꧂?
Copy the pair with the space in the middle, paste it, place the cursor in the gap and type or paste your name. The frame tab in the generator at the top of this page does it automatically for fourteen frames.
Why does my frame show as boxes for my friends?
Their device has no font for those characters. Egyptian hieroglyph frames such as 𓆩 𓆪 and cuneiform 𒆜 are the usual cause. Classic brackets like 【 】 or ꧁ ꧂ display on far more phones.
Why is my framed name too long for the game?
Frames add hidden characters. Hieroglyphs count as two UTF-16 units each, and stacked marks like the small letters in ᴠͥɪͣᴘͫ are extra characters. Use one classic pair and drop inner layers.
Can I use ☬ in my nickname?
☬ is the Khanda, the emblem of Sikhism. It is not a neutral decoration, and in game or joke names it is often seen as disrespectful, so we recommend another frame.
Checked on 14 September 2026: every code point, name, category and mirroring property was read from the Unicode Character Database.
