LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK

Property Value
Codepoint U+201C
Literal Character
Name LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
Sketch
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Aliases double turned comma quotation mark
Control Character no
Block General Punctuation
Subblock Letter
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