U+275C "❜" Heavy Single Comma Quotation Mark Ornament Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
❜
U+275C "❜" Heavy Single Comma Quotation Mark Ornament is a decorative typographic symbol classified as a Dingbat in the Dingbats Unicode block, designed to resemble a robust, stylized version of a closing single quotation mark or an apostrophe with a pronounced comma shape and heavy weight. Its primary purpose is ornamental, often used in graphic design, publishing, and digital typography to add visual flair to headings, pull quotes, or decorative text borders, rather than for standard punctuation. This character supports bidirectional text display and can be visually paired with its counterpart, U+275B "❛" Heavy Single Turned Comma Quotation Mark Ornament, to create matching quotation sets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+275C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Heavy Single 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 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x275C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000275C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u275c |
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 |