U+2E42 "⹂" Double Low-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⹂
U+2E42 "⹂" Double Low-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark is a specialized punctuation mark used in certain historical and linguistic texts, particularly in Old Church Slavonic and some early printed Slavic books, where it serves as a closing quotation mark. Visually, it resembles two short, deep-set commas positioned low on the baseline, appearing as a mirrored or reversed version of the standard double low-9 quotation mark. This character is part of the Supplemental Punctuation block and supports the nuanced needs of scholarly transcription and typographic fidelity for archaic or non standard writing systems, allowing writers and editors to precisely represent original quotation styles without resorting to modern substitutes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E42 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Double Low-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xB9 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e42 |