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Glyph for U+201B
Source: Noto Sans

U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark

U+201B was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Initial Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as single reversed comma quotation mark.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+201B prohibits a line break around it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 8219
UTF-8 E2 80 9B
UTF-16 20 1B
UTF-32 00 00 20 1B
URL-Quoted %E2%80%9B
HTML hex reference ‛
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ‛
alias single reversed comma quotation mark
LATEX \Elzreapos
AGL: Latin-5 quotereversed
Adobe Glyph List quoteleftreversed
Adobe Glyph List quotereversed
digraph 9'

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Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
Unicode 1 Name (na1) SINGLE REVERSED COMMA QUOTATION MARK
Block (blk) General Punctuation
General Category (gc) Initial Punctuation
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✔
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Close
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Quotation
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+201B Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R