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U+2017 CHARACTER

DOUBLE LOW LINE

Quick Facts

Unicode Name DOUBLE LOW LINE
Code Point U+2017
Decimal Value 8215
General Category Other Punctuation (Po) →
Unicode Block General Punctuation →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 80 97
UTF-16 Code Unit 2017
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002017
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 17 LE: 17 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 17 LE: 17 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ‗
HTML Hexadecimal ‗
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \002017
JavaScript (ES6) \u2017
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2017
JSON Escape \u2017
Python \u2017
PHP "\u{2017}"
Java "\u2017"
C / C++ "\u2017"
Rust '\u{2017}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%97

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition <compat> 0020 0333 compat
NFC / NFD Forms Compatibility decomposition (<compat>): NFKD/NFKC normalize to equivalent base characters.

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+2017 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A ‗ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A ‗ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A ‗ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A ‗ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name DOUBLE LOW LINE

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+2017

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