U+201A Single Low-9 Quotation Mark
U+201A 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 Open Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as low single 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+201A prohibits a line break after it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “low right apostrophe” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: apostrophe, low, quote, right.
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 | 8218 |
| UTF-8 | E2 80 9A |
| UTF-16 | 20 1A |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 1A |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%80%9A |
| HTML hex reference | ‚ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ‚ |
| HTML named entity | ‚ |
| HTML named entity | ‚ |
| alias | low single comma quotation mark |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | 82 |
| Encoding: CP1251 (hex bytes) | 82 |
| Encoding: CP1252 (hex bytes) | 82 |
| Encoding: CP1253 (hex bytes) | 82 |
| Encoding: CP1254 (hex bytes) | 82 |
| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | 82 |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | 82 |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | 82 |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | 82 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 A5 35 |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | 82 |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | 82 |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | E2 |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | E2 |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | E2 |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | E2 |
| LATEX | , |
| AGL: Latin-1 | quotesinglbase |
| AGL: Latin-2 | quotesinglbase |
| AGL: Latin-3 | quotesinglbase |
| AGL: Latin-4 | quotesinglbase |
| AGL: Latin-5 | quotesinglbase |
| Adobe Glyph List | quotesinglbase |
| digraph | .9 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK | |
| LOW SINGLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Open Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Close | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Open Punctuation | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Single Low-9 Quotation Mark | |
| R |