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Glyph for U+2033
Source: Noto Sans

U+2033 Double Prime

U+2033 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2000 to U+206F General Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as seconds and inches.

The glyph is a Compat composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+2032 Prime, Glyph for U+2032 Prime. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as European Terminator and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2033 behaves as Postfix Numeric regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “double prime” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: double prime, prime.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The prime symbol ′, double prime symbol ″, triple prime symbol ‴, and quadruple prime symbol ⁗ are used to designate units and for other purposes in mathematics, science, linguistics and music.

Although the characters differ little in appearance from those of the apostrophe and single and double quotation marks, the uses of the prime symbol are quite different. While an apostrophe is now often used in place of the prime, and a double quote in place of the double prime (due to the lack of prime symbols on everyday writing keyboards), such substitutions are not considered appropriate in formal materials or in typesetting.

Representations

System Representation
8243
UTF-8 E2 80 B3
UTF-16 20 33
UTF-32 00 00 20 33
URL-Quoted %E2%80%B3
HTML hex reference ″
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ″
HTML named entity ″
alias seconds
alias inches
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A1 C8
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) A1 ED
LATEX {''}
AGL: Latin-4 uni2033
AGL: Latin-5 uni2033
Adobe Glyph List second
digraph 2'

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name DOUBLE PRIME
Unicode 1 Name
Block General Punctuation
General Category Other Punctuation
Script Common
Bidirectional Category European Terminator
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+2032 Prime Glyph for U+2032 Prime
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2033 Double Prime
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2033 Double Prime
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2033 Double Prime
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2033 Double Prime
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2033 Double Prime
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2033 Double Prime
Case Folding Glyph for U+2033 Double Prime
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+2033 Double Prime
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
Ideographic
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+2032 Prime Glyph for U+2032 Prime
NFKC Quick Check No
NFKD Quick Check No
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+2033 Double Prime
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Postfix Numeric
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+2033 Double Prime
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R