LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK

Codepoint

U+201C

Literal Character

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Name

LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK

Sketch

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Aliases

double turned comma quotation mark

Control Character

no

Block

General Punctuation

Subblock

Quotation marks and apostrophe

UTF-8 byte encoding

e2 80 9c

UTF-16 byte encoding

20 1c (big endian)

HTML Entity

“

Perl string literal

\x{201C}

Comments

• this is the preferred character (as opposed to 201F)

See Also

U+0022: quotation mark
U+275D: heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament
U+301D: reversed double prime quotation mark