Unicode Character "‗" (U+2017)

The character ‗ (Double Low Line) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2017. It is encoded in the General Punctuation 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 Double Low Line
Unicode Codepoint U+2017
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block General Punctuation
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+2017 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ‗
HTML (hex) ‗
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%80%97
CSS \002017
JavaScript, JSON \u2017
C, C++, Java \u2017
Python \u2017
Rust \u{2017}
Ruby \u2017

How to type "‗"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 0 1 7. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 0 1 7. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0x97
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2017
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002017

References