"
Quotation Mark
- Unicode
- U+0022
- Category
- Punctuation
- Symbol Sets
- Quotation Marks
- HTML Entity
- "
- CSS
- \0022
The quotation mark (") is the straight double quote on every keyboard, a typewriter compromise that serves as both the opening and the closing quote. Typeset text uses curly quotes instead — “ ” in English, « » in French, Spanish and Russian — and Word, Google Docs and phones usually replace " with them as you type. The straight mark also stands in for inches and seconds (5' 11"), where the precise characters are the primes ′ and ″.
On a US keyboard " is Shift + the apostrophe key, right of the semicolon; on a UK PC keyboard it is Shift+2 (a British Mac keeps it on Shift+'). On the US-International layout it is a dead key: press it, then Space. On an iPhone it is on the 123 page (switch off Smart Punctuation to keep it straight), on Android on the ?123 page.
On a US keyboard " is Shift + the apostrophe key, right of the semicolon; on a UK PC keyboard it is Shift+2 (a British Mac keeps it on Shift+'). On the US-International layout it is a dead key: press it, then Space. On an iPhone it is on the 123 page (switch off Smart Punctuation to keep it straight), on Android on the ?123 page.
How to Type
- Windows
- Shift+' (US) · Shift+2 (UK) · Alt+34
- macOS
- Shift+'
- Linux
- Shift+' · Ctrl+Shift+U 22
- HTML
- "
In Programming
Double quotes delimit strings in C, Java, C# and JSON, which accepts no other quote. In Bash and PHP a double-quoted string expands variables and a single-quoted one does not. HTML attribute values are wrapped in them, so a literal " inside an attribute is written "; inside a string it is escaped as \", and in CSV a quote inside a quoted field is doubled (""). Curly “ ” pasted from a word processor are a syntax error in code.
Tags
quotation mark
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straight quotes
quote symbol
straight vs curly quotes
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inch symbol
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