Quotation Marks in Unicode
See also: Non-English usage of quotation marksIn Unicode, 29 characters are marked Quotation Mark=Yes by character property . They all have general category "Punctuation", and a subcategory Open, Close, Initial, Final or Other (Ps, Pe, Pi, Pf, Po).
| Quotation marks in Unicode | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glyph | Code | Unicode name | HTML | Comments |
| " | U+0022 | quotation mark | " | Typewriter (“programmer’s”) quote, ambidextrous |
| ' | U+0027 | apostrophe | ' | Typewriter (“programmer’s”) straight single quote, ambidextrous |
| « | U+00AB | left-pointing double angle quotation mark | « | Double angle quote (chevron, guillemet, duck-foot quote), left |
| » | U+00BB | right-pointing double angle quotation mark | » | Double angle quote, right |
| ‘ | U+2018 | left single quotation mark | ‘ | Single curved quote, left |
| ’ | U+2019 | right single quotation mark | ’ | Single curved quote, right |
| ‚ | U+201A | single low-9 quotation mark | ‚ | Low single curved quote, left |
| ‛ | U+201B | single high-reversed-9 quotation mark | ‛ | also called single reversed comma, quotation mark |
| “ | U+201C | left double quotation mark | “ | Double curved quote, or “curly quote”, left |
| ” | U+201D | right double quotation mark | ” | Double curved quote, right |
| „ | U+201E | double low-9 quotation mark | „ | Low double curved quote, left |
| ‟ | U+201F | double high-reversed-9 quotation mark | ‟ | also called double reversed comma, quotation mark |
| ‹ | U+2039 | single left-pointing angle quotation mark | ‹ | Single angle quote, left |
| › | U+203A | single right-pointing angle quotation mark | › | Single angle quote, right |
| Quotation marks in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) | ||||
| 「 | U+300C | left corner bracket | 「 | CJK |
| 」 | U+300D | right corner bracket | 」 | CJK |
| 『 | U+300E | left white corner bracket | 『 | CJK |
| 』 | U+300F | right white corner bracket | 』 | CJK |
| 〝 | U+301D | reversed double prime quotation mark | 〝 | CJK |
| 〞 | U+301E | double prime quotation mark | 〞 | CJK |
| 〟 | U+301F | low double prime quotation mark | 〟 | CJK |
| Alternate encodings | ||||
| ﹁ | U+FE41 | presentation form for vertical left corner bracket | ﹁ | CJK Compatibility, preferred use: U+300C |
| ﹂ | U+FE42 | presentation form for vertical right corner bracket | ﹂ | CJK Compatibility, preferred use: U+300D |
| ﹃ | U+FE43 | presentation form for vertical left corner white bracket | ﹃ | CJK Compatibility, preferred use: U+300E |
| ﹄ | U+FE44 | presentation form for vertical right corner white bracket | ﹄ | CJK Compatibility, preferred use: U+300F |
| ＂ | U+FF02 | fullwidth quotation mark | ＂ | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, corresponds with U+0022 |
| ＇ | U+FF07 | fullwidth apostrophe | ＇ | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Formscorresponds with U+0027 |
| ｢ | U+FF62 | halfwidth left corner bracket | ｢ | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, corresponds with U+300C |
| ｣ | U+FF63 | halfwidth right corner bracket | ｣ | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, corresponds with U+300D |
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