Single High-reversed-9 Quotation Mark Single Reversed Comma Quotation Mark
U+201B
About Single High-reversed-9 Quotation Mark Single Reversed Comma Quotation Mark
Single High-reversed-9 Quotation Mark Single Reversed Comma Quotation Mark is the Unicode character ‛ at codepoint U+201B in the General Punctuation block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Reference
Rotate a comma through 180 degrees and lift it to cap height: that is this mark. It is not the mirror image of a closing quote, which is what most people assume — mirroring would put the tail on the other side, while rotating leaves the tail pointing up and the ball at the bottom. Unicode records the shape in the name itself, "high-reversed-9", and gives it the alias single reversed comma quotation mark.
Semantically it is a twin of the ordinary left single quote: the chart says the two have the same meaning and differ only in appearance, and the entry for that one names it the preferred character of the pair. So this is the form you choose deliberately or not at all. It is general category Pi, initial punctuation, so a text engine treats it as an opener even when it looks like a closer.
Watch out for
- U+2018, the preferred opening single quote, which this one duplicates in meaning
- U+02BD MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA, the letter-class counterpart used in orthographies
- U+2019, the closing single quote and apostrophe, which this is not a mirror of
At a glance
- U+201B, General Punctuation; Unicode 1.1 (1993); general category Pi
- East Asian Width Neutral; line break class QU
- No Windows-1252 byte, unlike the four curly quotes at 0x91–0x94
Developer Notes
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How to Use Single High-reversed-9 Quotation Mark Single Reversed Comma Quotation Mark
To use the Single High-reversed-9 Quotation Mark Single Reversed Comma Quotation Mark 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: '\201B';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u201B' evaluates to ‛. In Python source, write '\u201B'.
The character encodes to E2 80 9B as UTF-8 bytes and 201B as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8219.
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.