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Double Dagger HTML entity ‡
‡ is the HTML entity for Double Dagger ‡ (U+2021). Copy the decimal ‡ and hex ‡ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
‡- Also written
‡- Code point
- U+2021
- Unicode name
- DOUBLE DAGGER
- Block
- General Punctuation
- Category
- Other punctuation (Po)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ‡Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ‡Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ‡Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\2021";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2021"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2021"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{DOUBLE DAGGER}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%80%A1Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 80 A13 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 20211 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The double dagger is the third footnote mark, after the asterisk and the dagger. The entity name is case sensitive: ‡ is this character and † is the single dagger.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).