This unicode character belongs to the General Punctuation Unicode Block.
| Decimal value | 8224 |
| Codepoint | U+2020 |
| UTF-8 bytes (dec) | 226 128 160 |
| UTF-8 bytes (hex) | e2 80 a0 |
| HTML entity | † |
| VIM Digraph | /- |
| Category | Po |
| Class | 0 |
The asteroid 37 Fides, the last asteroid to be assigned an astronomical symbol before the practice faded, was assigned the dagger.
In Anglican chant pointing, the dagger indicates a verse to be sung to the second part of the chant.
In some early printed Bible translations, a dagger or double dagger indicates that a literal translation of a word or phrase is to be found in the margin.
In biology, the dagger next to a taxon name indicates that the taxon is extinct.
In library cataloging, a double dagger delimits MARC subfields.
In chess notation, the dagger may be suffixed to a move to signify the move resulted in a check, and a double dagger denotes checkmate. This is a stylistic variation on the more common + (plus sign) for a check and # (number sign) for checkmate.
In chemistry, the double dagger is used in chemical kinetics to indicate a transition state species.
On a cricket scorecard or team list, the dagger indicates the team's wicket-keeper..
In genealogy, the dagger is used traditionally to mark a death in genealogical records.
In linguistics, the dagger placed after a language name indicates an extinct language.
Some logicians use the dagger as an affirmation ("it is true that …") operator.
The palochka is transliterated to a double dagger ib the ISO 9 standard for converting Cyrillic to Latin
In psychological statistics the dagger indicates that a difference between two figures is not significant to a p<0.05 level, however is still considered a "trend" or worthy of note. Commonly this will be used for a p-value between 0.1 and 0.05.
In mathematics and, more often, physics, a dagger denotes the Hermitian adjoint of an operator; for example, A† denotes the adjoint of A. This notation is sometimes replaced with an asterisk, especially in mathematics. An operator is said to be Hermitian if A† = A.
In philology, the dagger indicates an obsolete form of a word or phrase.
In textual criticism and in some editions of works written before the invention of printing, daggers enclose text that is believed not to be original.