Unicode Character 'SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2039)

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SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

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SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

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Unicode Data
Name SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
Block General Punctuation
Category Punctuation, Initial quote (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage) [Pi]
Script Common (Zyyy)
Combine 0
BIDI Other Neutrals [ON]
Mirror SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (U+203A)
Old name LEFT POINTING SINGLE GUILLEMET
Index entries ANGLE QUOTATION MARK, SINGLE LEFT-POINTING
guillemet, left pointing single
left pointing single guillemet
LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK, SINGLE
QUOTATION MARK, SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE
single guillemet, left pointing
SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
Comments Formal Alias: left pointing single guillemet
usually opening, sometimes closing
See Also less-than sign U+003C
left-pointing angle bracket U+2329
left angle bracket U+3008
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) ‹
HTML Entity (hex) ‹
HTML Entity (named) ‹
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +2039
UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0xB9 (e280b9)
UTF-8 (binary) 11100010:10000000:10111001
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2039 (2039)
UTF-16 (decimal) 8,249
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002039 (2039)
UTF-32 (decimal) 8,249
C/C++/Java source code "\u2039"
Python source code u"\u2039"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase()
string.toLowerCase()
Character.UnicodeBlock GENERAL_PUNCTUATION
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 29
Character.isDefined() Yes
Character.isDigit() No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() No
Character.isISOControl() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() No
Character.isLetter() No
Character.isLetterOrDigit() No
Character.isLowerCase() No
Character.isMirrored() Yes
Character.isSpaceChar() No
Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() No
Character.isTitleCase() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() No
Character.isUpperCase() No
Character.isValidCodePoint() Yes
Character.isWhitespace() No