Unicode Character "‹" (U+008B)

The character (Partial Line Forward) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+008B. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ‹.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Partial Line Forward
Unicode Codepoint U+008B
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Boundary Neutral (BN)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Control
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+008B Conversion

HTML (decimal) ‹
HTML (hex) ‹
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %C2%8B
CSS \00008B
JavaScript, JSON \u008B
C, C++, Java \u008B
Python \u008B
Rust \u{008B}
Ruby \u008B

How to type "‹"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 8 B. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 8 B. Release Alt.

Preview

  • Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0x8B
UTF-16 (hex) 0x008B
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000008B

References