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See also: “ [U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK], ” [U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK], 〃 [U+3003 DITTO MARK], ″ [U+2033 DOUBLE PRIME], ״ [U+05F4 HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM], and " "

also "

" U+0022, " QUOTATION MARK ← ! [U+0021] Basic Latin # → [U+0023]

＂ U+FF02, ＂ FULLWIDTH QUOTATION MARK ← ！ [U+FF01] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ＃ → [U+FF03]

Translingual

Alternative forms

• “ (as opening quotation mark), ” (as closing quotation mark), ״ (as gershayim), 〃 (as ditto mark), ″ (as double prime)

Etymology

Typographical simplification, particularly due to the use of typewriters, thence followed in computers: rather than having separate opening (“) and closing (”) quotation marks (and other keys for ″ and others), a single square key was used, to reduce the number of keys.

Punctuation mark

"

1. Used as a quotation mark in some languages. See " ".
2. An ASCII substitute for ״ (gershayim)
3. An ASCII substitute for ″ (double prime, as in inches)
4. Used after a letter as a nonstandard representation of an umlaut, diaeresis or hungarumlaut, when technical limitations prevent the use of one.

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Related terms

• (diacritical mark): ', :

Symbol

"

2. 〃 (ditto mark) Used in lists or tables to indicate a repetition of appropriate content above
3. (time, angles) An ASCII substitute for the symbol representing the second, placed after the value of the seconds in a term to indicate seconds count

Coordinate terms

• (time): '
• (angles): ', °
• (ditto mark): see 〃

See also

• Ditto mark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
• square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )
• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
• full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
• semicolon ( ; )
• slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
• space ( ] [ )

quotation marks and quotation dashes in all languages (edit)

• Afrikaans: “ ”, ‘ ’, „ ”, ‚ ’
• Albanian: „ “, ‘ ’
• Arabic: « », ( ), “ ”
• Armenian: « »
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: « », “ ”
• Azerbaijani: « », ‹ ›, “ ”, " ", ‘ ’, ' '
• Basque: « », ‹ ›, “ ”, ‘ ’
• Belarusian: « », “ ”
• Bulgarian: „ “, ’ ’, ‘ ’, « », ’ ’, ‘ ’, —
• Catalan: « », “ ”, ‘ ’
• Chinese: “ ”, ‘ ’, 「 」, 『 』
• Czech: „ “, ‚ ‘, » «, › ‹
• Danish: » «, „ “, › ‹, ‚ ’, ” ”, ’ ’
• Dutch: ‘ ’, “ ”, ‚ ’, „ ”
• English U.K.: ' ', " ", ‘ ’, “ ”
• English U.S.: " ", ' ', “ ”, ‘ ’
• Esperanto: “ ”, ‘ ’, —
• Estonian: „ “, « »
• Filipino: “ ”, ‘ ’
• Finnish: ” ”, ’ ’, » »
• French: « », ‹ ›, “ ”, —
• Georgian: „ “, ‚ ‘, » «, › ‹
• German: „ “, ‚ ‘   ;   » «, › ‹   ;   regional: « », ‹ ›
• Greek: « », “ ”, —
• Hungarian: „ ”, » «, —
• Icelandic: „ “, ‚ ‘
• Indonesian: “ ”, ‘ ’
• Interlingua: “ ”, ‘ ’
• Irish: “ ”, ‘ ’
• Italian: « », ‹ ›, ‟ ”, ‛ ’
• Japanese: 「 」, 『 』, 〝 〟, 〝 〞
• Korean: “ ”, ‘ ’, 『 』, 「 」
• Latvian: « », „ “
• Lithuanian: « », „ “
• Lower Sorbian: „ “, ‚ ‘
• Macedonian: „ “, ’ ‘
• Northern Kurdish: « »
• Norwegian: « », „ “, ‘ ’, ‚ ‘
• Persian: « »
• Polish: „ ”, « », » «, —
• Portuguese: “ ”, ‘ ’, « », —
• Romanian: „ ”, « », —
• Russian: « », „ “, „ ”, —
• Serbo-Croatian: „ ”, ” ”, ‘ ’, ’ ’, „ “, » «
• Slovak: „ “, ‚ ‘, » «, › ‹
• Slovene: „ “, ‚ ‘, » «, › ‹
• Spanish: « », “ ”, ‘ ’, —
• Swedish: ” ”, ’ ’, » », » «, —
• Thai: “ ”, ‘ ’
• Turkish: “ ”, ‘ ’, « », › ‹, —
• Ukrainian: « », „ ”, ‚ ‘
• Vietnamese: “ ”, —
• Welsh: ‘ ’, “ ”

quotation marks - all matched-pairs

• Curved double quotation marks: “ ”, ” ”, „ ”, „ “, ‟ ”
• Curved single quotation marks: ‘ ’, ’ ’, ‚ ’, ‚ ‘, ’ ‘, ‛ ’
• Straight double quotation marks: " "
• Straight single quotation marks: ' '
• Guillemets: « », » «, » »
• Single guillemets: ‹ ›, › ‹
• Corner brackets: 「 」, 『 』
• Prime quotation marks: 〝 〟, 〝 〞

quotation marks and quotation dashes - all single characters

• Curved double quotation marks: “, ”, „, ‟
• Curved single quotation marks and apostrophes: ‘, ’, ‚, ‛
• Straight double quotation mark: "
• Straight single quotation mark and apostrophe: '
• Prime quotation marks: 〝, 〞, 〟
• Guillemets: «, »
• Single guillemets: ‹, ›
• Corner brackets: 「, 」, 『, 』
• Quotation dashes: — (em dash), ― (horizontal bar), – (en dash)