U+2039 Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark
U+2039 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Initial Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as left pointing single guillemet.
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 mirrored into
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Guillemets (, also UK: , US: , French: [ɡijəmɛ]) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons, « and », used as quotation marks in a number of languages. In some of these languages, "single" guillemets, ‹ and ›, are used for a quotation inside another quotation. Guillemets are not conventionally used in the English language.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8249 |
UTF-8 | E2 80 B9 |
UTF-16 | 20 39 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 20 39 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%80%B9 |
HTML hex reference | ‹ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ‹ |
HTML named entity | ‹ |
alias | left pointing single guillemet |
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | DC |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | 8B |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | 8B |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | 8B |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | 8B |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | 8B |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | 8B |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | 8B |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | 8B |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | 8B |
LATEX | \guilsinglleft |
AGL: Latin-1 | guilsinglleft |
AGL: Latin-2 | guilsinglleft |
AGL: Latin-3 | guilsinglleft |
AGL: Latin-4 | guilsinglleft |
AGL: Latin-5 | guilsinglleft |
Adobe Glyph List | guilsinglleft |
digraph | <1 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK | |
LEFT POINTING SINGLE GUILLEMET | |
General Punctuation | |
Initial Punctuation | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Close | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Quotation | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |