What ‶ means
It is a doubled reversed-prime mark for specialist notation. Unicode expands it to two reversed primes, ‵‵.
In East Asian double-prime quotation, 〝 opens and 〟 closes; they are separate quote marks.
Technical and typographic; uncommon in conversation.
For an opening quote, use your language’s mark.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ‶ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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Collections with ‶
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How to type or find ‶
- Search it as
- backprime symbol · reversed prime mark · double prime quote · double quotation mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
‶CSS
\2036Unicode input
Enter U2036 through your editor’s Unicode input method; ordinary layouts lack a dedicated key.
Source code
Use \u2036 in Unicode-escape languages, or ‶ in HTML.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
‶
HTML hex
‶
CSS content
content: "\2036";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%80%B6
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.