U+2033 Double Prime
U+2033 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the 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 Prime, 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 |
|---|---|
| Nº | 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' |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| DOUBLE PRIME | |
| — | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| European Terminator | |
| Not Reordered | |
| Compat | |
| Prime Prime | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Prime | |
| Double Prime | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Prime | |
| Double Prime | |
| Double Prime | |
| Double Prime | |
| Double Prime | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Double Prime | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Prime Prime | |
| No | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| Double Prime | |
| None | |
| Ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Postfix Numeric | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Double Prime | |
| R |