U+2E42 "⹂" Double Low-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Double Low-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark
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
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common