Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark

Group: Punctuation

Keywords

punctuation

About this character

Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+2039. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+2039
Hex: 2039
Decimal: 8249
HTML: ‹
CSS: \2039
JavaScript: \u2039
Python: \u2039
UTF-8: E2 80 B9

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.