U+275B "❛" Heavy Single Turned Comma Quotation Mark Ornament Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
❛
U+275B "❛" Heavy Single Turned Comma Quotation Mark Ornament is a typographic decorative symbol primarily used in ornamental or stylized text, functioning as an opening quotation mark with a heavy, bold weight. It belongs to the Dingbats block in Unicode and is often paired with its mirror counterpart, the Heavy Single Comma Quotation Mark Ornament (U+275C), to create visually striking quotation enclosures in headings, posters, or calligraphic designs. Its curved, comma-like shape distinguishes it from standard quotation marks, adding an elegant, decorative flair to written language without altering grammatical meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+275B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Heavy Single Turned Comma Quotation Mark Ornament |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ❛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ❛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9D 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x275B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000275B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u275b |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Quotation |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Close |