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U+2021 · DOUBLE DAGGER

Double Dagger

  • CodepointU+2021
  • NameDOUBLE DAGGER
  • Decimal8225
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2021 (‡) is DOUBLE DAGGER, a punctuation mark in the General Punctuation block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ‡

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 A13 bytes
UTF-1620211 code unit
UTF-32000020214 bytes
HTML named‡named character reference
HTML named‡named character reference
HTML decimal‡
HTML hex‡
CSS\2021in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2021
JSON\u2021
Python\u2021
Python\N{DOUBLE DAGGER}by name
Java / C#\u2021
C / C++\u2021universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2021}
Go\u2021
Ruby\u2021
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8225)
URL-encoded%E2%80%A1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+201B‛Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark U+201C“Left Double Quotation Mark U+201D”Right Double Quotation Mark U+201E„Double Low-9 Quotation Mark U+201F‟Double High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark U+2020†Dagger U+2022•Bullet U+2023‣Triangular Bullet U+2024․One Dot Leader U+2025‥Two Dot Leader U+2026…Horizontal Ellipsis U+2027‧Hyphenation Point