Double Low Line Spacing Double Underscore

U+2017

About Double Low Line Spacing Double Underscore

Double Low Line Spacing Double Underscore is the Unicode character ‗ at codepoint U+2017 in the General Punctuation block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Double Low Line Spacing Double Underscore

To use the Double Low Line Spacing Double Underscore symbol (‗) in HTML, insert the entity ‗ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ‗ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2017';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2017' evaluates to ‗. In Python source, write '\u2017'.

The character encodes to E2 80 97 as UTF-8 bytes and 2017 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8215.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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