Single Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Left Pointing Single Guillemet is the Unicode character ‹ at codepoint U+2039 in the General Punctuation block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Single Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Left Pointing Single Guillemet
To use the Single Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Left Pointing Single Guillemet 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: '\2039';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2039' evaluates to ‹. In Python source, write '\u2039'.
The character encodes to E2 80 B9 as UTF-8 bytes and 2039 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8249.
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.