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Lexical Tools

Samples of common seen puntuaction & Symbols

  • Single Quotation Marks:

    CharUnicodeUnicode NameNorm ASCII
    CharHex
    'U+0027APOSTROPHE 'U+0027
    `U+0060GRAVE ACCENT `U+0060
    ´U+00B4ACUTE ACCENT 'U+0027
    U+2018LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK 'U+0027
    U+2019RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK 'U+0027
    U+201BSINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK 'U+0027

  • Double Quotation Marks:

    CharUnicodeUnicode NameNorm ASCII
    CharHex
    "U+0022QUOTATION MARK "U+0022
    «U+00ABLEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK "U+0022
    »U+00BBRIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK "U+0022
    U+201CLEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK "U+0022
    U+201DRIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK "U+0022
    U+201EDOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK "U+0022
    U+201FDOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK "U+0022

  • Hashes & Hyphens:

    CharUnicodeUnicode NameNorm ASCII
    StringHex
    ­U+00ADSOFT HYPHEN-U+002D
    U+2010HYPHEN-U+002D
    U+2011NON-BREAKING HYPHEN-U+002D
    U+2012FIGURE DASH-U+002D
    U+2013EN DASH -U+002D
    U+2014EM DASH -U+002D
    U+FF0DFULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS -U+002D

  • Others:

    CharUnicodeUnicode NameNorm ASCII
    StringHex
    U+201ASINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK ,U+002C
    U+2026HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS ...U+0026 U+0026 U+0026
    U+2039SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK <U+003C
    U+3008LEFT ANGLE BRACKET <U+003C
    U+2264LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO<=U+003C U+003D
    U+2266LESS-THAN OVER EQUAL TO<=U+003C U+003D
    U+203ASINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK >U+003E
    U+3009RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET >U+003E
    U+2265GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO>=U+003E U+003D
    U+2267GREATER-THAN OVER EQUAL TO>=U+003E U+003D