U+205B— GENERAL PUNCTUATION CHARACTER U+205B
Typographic punctuation mark used for formatting, quotations, and dashes in publishing.
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GENERAL PUNCTUATION CHARACTER U+205B
U+205B • Decimal 8283
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1-Click Multi-Language Developer Copy Palette (13 Formats)
Instant Clipboard ExportCharacter Glyph (Raw)
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Unicode Codepoint (Hex)
U+205B
Decimal Integer
8283
HTML Entity (Decimal)
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HTML Entity (Hex)
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JavaScript ES6 / JSON
\u205B
Java / C# (Surrogates)
\u205B
Python 3
\u205B
C / C++ / Rust
\u205B
CSS Content
\00205B
URL Percent-Encoded
%E2%81%9B
Raw UTF-8 Bytes (Hex)
0xE2 0x81 0x9B
Base64 Stream
4oGb
Unicode Character Database (UCD) Technical Specifications
Unicode 16.0 Standard| Unicode Plane | Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) • U+0000..U+FFFF |
| Unicode Block | General Punctuation (U+2000..U+206F) |
| General Category | Lo — Other Letter / Symbol |
| Bidirectional Class | L (Left-to-Right) • Flow: LTR |
| Unicode Version Introduced | Unicode 2.0 - 5.0 |
| UTF-8 Byte Stream | 0xE2 0x81 0x9B (3 Bytes) |
| UTF-16 Code Units | 0x205B |
| UTF-32 Hexadecimal | 0x0000205B |
Quick Character Summary
Glyph⁛
Hex CodepointU+205B
Decimal ID8283
ScriptCommon
DirectionLTR (L)
Introduced InUnicode 2.0 - 5.0
Device & Font Support
99.0% SupportApple (iOS / macOS)iOS 5.0+
Google (Android / Chrome)Android 4.0+
Microsoft (Windows)Windows 7+
Standard Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) character widely supported across all modern browsers.