„
Double Low-9 Quotation Mark
- Unicode
- U+201E
- Category
- Punctuation
- HTML Entity
- „
- CSS
- \201E
The „ character is a double quotation mark that sits on the baseline rather than above it. German uses it as the standard opening quote — „so“ — and Russian uses the „…“ pair inside a quotation that is already wrapped in guillemets « ». English rarely needs it, which is why most keyboards omit it, but you will meet it constantly in German and Russian text.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+0132
- macOS
- Option+Shift+W (US layout)
- Linux
- Compose + " + ,
- HTML
- „ or „
In Programming
This is not a string delimiter: compilers and interpreters only recognise the straight double quote ("). It is perfectly valid inside a string literal or a UTF-8 source file — trouble only starts when you paste code from an editor that silently converted straight quotes into typographic ones.
Tags
double low-9 quotation mark
german quotation marks
opening quote
low quotes
bdquo
nested quotes
typographic quotes
punctuation
copy quotation mark
baseline quote