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U+201C · LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK

Left Double Quotation Mark

  • CodepointU+201C
  • NameLEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
  • Decimal8220
  • BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPi — Initial Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+201C (“) is LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK, an opening quotation mark in the General Punctuation block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

It has standardized variation sequences that request a specific glyph shape: U+201C U+FE00 — non-fullwidth form; U+201C U+FE01 — right-justified fullwidth form. See variation selectors.

How to type “

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 80 9C3 bytes
UTF-16201C1 code unit
UTF-320000201C4 bytes
HTML named“named character reference
HTML named“named character reference
HTML decimal“
HTML hex“
CSS\201Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u201C
JSON\u201C
Python\u201C
Python\N{LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK}by name
Java / C#\u201C
C / C++\u201Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{201C}
Go\u201C
Ruby\u201C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8220)
URL-encoded%E2%80%9Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in General Punctuation

All in block →
U+2016‖Double Vertical Line U+2017‗Double Low Line U+2018‘Left Single Quotation Mark U+2019’Right Single Quotation Mark U+201A‚Single Low-9 Quotation Mark U+201B‛Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark U+201D”Right Double Quotation Mark U+201E„Double Low-9 Quotation Mark U+201F‟Double High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark U+2020†Dagger U+2021‡Double Dagger U+2022•Bullet