U+201A "‚" Single Low-9 Quotation Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+201A "‚" Single Low-9 Quotation Mark is a typographic punctuation mark that resembles a raised comma but sits at the baseline, used primarily in some European languages to indicate the opening of a quotation, often paired with a closing high quotation mark such as U+2019 "'" Right Single Quotation Mark. It appears in languages like Polish, Romanian, and certain varieties of German and French, where it helps distinguish quoted speech or text within a sentence, and it is distinct from the standard apostrophe or comma in both shape and function.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+201A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Single Low-9 Quotation Mark |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Low Single Comma Quotation Mark |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Open Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ‚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ‚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x80 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x201A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000201A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u201a |