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U+205EGENERAL PUNCTUATION CHARACTER U+205E

Typographic punctuation mark used for formatting, quotations, and dashes in publishing.

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GENERAL PUNCTUATION CHARACTER U+205E
U+205E • Decimal 8286
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1-Click Multi-Language Developer Copy Palette (13 Formats)

Instant Clipboard Export
Character Glyph (Raw)
Unicode Codepoint (Hex)
U+205E
Decimal Integer
8286
HTML Entity (Decimal)
⁞
HTML Entity (Hex)
⁞
JavaScript ES6 / JSON
\u205E
Java / C# (Surrogates)
\u205E
Python 3
\u205E
C / C++ / Rust
\u205E
CSS Content
\00205E
URL Percent-Encoded
%E2%81%9E
Raw UTF-8 Bytes (Hex)
0xE2 0x81 0x9E
Base64 Stream
4oGe

Unicode Character Database (UCD) Technical Specifications

Unicode 16.0 Standard
Unicode PlanePlane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) • U+0000..U+FFFF
Unicode BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000..U+206F)
General CategoryLo Other Letter / Symbol
Bidirectional ClassL (Left-to-Right) • Flow: LTR
Unicode Version IntroducedUnicode 2.0 - 5.0
UTF-8 Byte Stream0xE2 0x81 0x9E (3 Bytes)
UTF-16 Code Units0x205E
UTF-32 Hexadecimal0x0000205E

Quick Character Summary

Glyph
Hex CodepointU+205E
Decimal ID8286
ScriptCommon
DirectionLTR (L)
Introduced InUnicode 2.0 - 5.0

Device & Font Support

99.0% Support
Apple (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.