U+2020 "†" Dagger Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2020 "†" Dagger is a typographic symbol with a long history, dating back to medieval manuscripts where it was used as a reference mark to indicate a marginal note or a significant point in the text. In modern usage, it serves primarily as a footnote marker, often the second symbol used after the asterisk, and it also appears in other contexts such as indicating a legal filing date, denoting death dates in genealogy, or marking a conditional clause in linguistics. Its design resembles a short cross or a sword, which gives the symbol its common name derived from the weapon.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2020 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Dagger |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | † |
| HTML Hex Encoding | † |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x80 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2020 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002020 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2020 |