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U+2039 CHARACTER

SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

Quick Facts

Unicode Name SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
Code Point U+2039
Decimal Value 8249
General Category Initial Punctuation (Pi) →
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 B9
UTF-16 Code Unit 2039
UTF-32 4 bytes 00002039
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 39 LE: 39 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 39 LE: 39 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ‹
HTML Hexadecimal ‹
HTML Named Entity ‹
CSS Escape \002039
JavaScript (ES6) \u2039
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u2039
JSON Escape \u2039
Python \u2039
PHP "\u{2039}"
Java "\u2039"
C / C++ "\u2039"
Rust '\u{2039}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%B9

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored Yes (Mirrored in RTL contexts)

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+2039 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 SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

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

Identifier U+2039

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