QUOTATION MARK

Property Value
Codepoint U+0022
Literal Character "
Name QUOTATION MARK
Sketch
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Aliases double quote
Control Character no
Block Basic Latin
Subblock C0 controls
UTF-8 byte encoding 22
UTF-16 byte encoding 00 22 (big endian)
HTML Entity "
LaTeX expression "
Perl string literal \x{22}
Comments
  • neutral (vertical), used as opening or closing quotation mark
  • preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are 201C & 201D
  • 05F4 is preferred for gershayim when writing Hebrew
See Also U+02BA: modifier letter double prime
U+02DD: double acute accent
U+02EE: modifier letter double apostrophe
U+030B: combining double acute accent
U+030E: combining double vertical line above
U+05F4: hebrew punctuation gershayim
U+201C: left double quotation mark
U+201D: right double quotation mark
U+2033: double prime
U+3003: ditto mark