Heavy Low Double Comma Quotation Mark Ornament ❠
Symbol Meaning
Double commas may be applied in various situations. Most often it performs as an opening quotation mark in the following contexts: citations, headlines, direct speech, ironic words or figurative locutions. In fact, you're less likely to see a double comma in rebuses, but still. If this sign stands next to the end of the word, it means that you have to subtract the last two letters to decode the hidden word.
Heavy Low Double Comma is one of the classic Unicode symbols. When organising quotation marks, you can combine this symbol with the similar upper version ❞ or rotated double commas ❝.
The symbol “Heavy Low Double Comma Quotation Mark Ornament” is included in the “Punctuation mark ornaments” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010.
| Unicode Name | Heavy Low Double Comma Quotation Mark Ornament |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Punctuation mark ornaments |
| Unicode Version | 6.0 (2010) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2760 |
| Simple case change | 2760 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D A0 | 226 157 160 | 14851488 | 11100010 10011101 10100000 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 60 | 39 96 | 10080 | 00100111 01100000 |
| UTF-16LE | 60 27 | 96 39 | 24615 | 01100000 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 60 | 0 0 39 96 | 10080 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01100000 |
| UTF-32LE | 60 27 00 00 | 96 39 0 0 | 1613168640 | 01100000 00100111 00000000 00000000 |