U+2021 DOUBLE DAGGER

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Decimal / Nº
8225
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2021, officially named DOUBLE DAGGER, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8225 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 80 A1 Copied!
UTF-16 20 21 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 21 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%80%A1 Copied!
HTML hex reference ‡ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2021' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2021 Copied!
C and C++ \u2021 Copied!
C# \u2021 Copied!
CSS \002021 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8225) Copied!
Go \u2021 Copied!
JavaScript \u2021 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2021} Copied!
JSON \u2021 Copied!
Java \u2021 Copied!
Lua \u{2021} Copied!
Matlab char(8225) Copied!
Perl \x{2021} Copied!
PHP \u{2021} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2021' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2021} Copied!
Python \u2021 Copied!
Ruby \u{2021} Copied!
Rust \u{2021} Copied!