U+2039 Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark
U+2039 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the 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 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 Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark. U+2039 prohibits a line break around it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
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 English.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| 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: CP1250 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 A7 38 |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | DC |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | DC |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK | |
| LEFT POINTING SINGLE GUILLEMET | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Initial Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Close | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Quotation | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| R |