U+201C – Left Double Quotation Mark

Find more about the U+201C Unicode character below, including its properties, usage, and encoding details.

CodepointU+201C
NameLeft Double Quotation Mark
Aliasdouble turned comma quotation mark
CategoryInitial Punctuation (Pi)
ScriptCommon
BlockGeneral Punctuation
PlaneBasic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
VersionUnicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Numeric Character Reference“
Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference“
HTML Named Character Reference
(HTML Named Entity)
“
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CSS Character Reference
(CSS Escape Code)
\201C
Links
Plain
https://everychar.com/code/U+201C
Markdown
[U+201C](https://everychar.com/code/U+201C)
Notes

This is the preferred character (as opposed to 201F).

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