U+2039 Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark
U+2039 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 Initial Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as left pointing single guillemet.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is mirrored. Its corresponding mirrored glyph is Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2039 behaves as Quotation regarding line breaks. It has type Close for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Guillemets (, also UK: , US: , French: [ɡijəmɛ]) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons, « and », used as quotation marks in a number of languages. In some of these languages "single" guillemets, ‹ and ›, are used for a quotation inside another quotation. Guillemets are not conventionally used in the English language.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8249 |
| UTF-8 | E2 80 B9 |
| UTF-16 | 20 39 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 39 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%80%B9 |
| HTML hex reference | ‹ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ‹ |
| HTML named entity | ‹ |
| alias | left pointing single guillemet |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | DC |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | 8B |
| LATEX | \guilsinglleft |
| AGL: Latin-1 | guilsinglleft |
| AGL: Latin-2 | guilsinglleft |
| AGL: Latin-3 | guilsinglleft |
| AGL: Latin-4 | guilsinglleft |
| AGL: Latin-5 | guilsinglleft |
| Adobe Glyph List | guilsinglleft |
| digraph | <1 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK | |
| LEFT POINTING SINGLE GUILLEMET | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Initial Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Close | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Quotation | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark | |
| R |