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Right Double Quotation Mark
- Unicode
- U+201D
- Category
- Punctuation
- HTML Entity
- ”
- CSS
- \201D
The right double quotation mark (”) is a typographic symbol primarily used to close a direct quote or piece of dialogue in formal writing. Often referred to as a closing "smart quote" or "curly quote," it pairs with the left double quotation mark to give text a polished, published appearance. While modern word processors usually insert it automatically, it remains a distinct character from the standard straight double quote found on most keyboards.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+0148
- macOS
- Option+Shift+[
- Linux
- Compose + > + "
- HTML
- ” or ”
In Programming
Programmers generally avoid curly quotes like ” because most coding languages only recognize standard straight quotes (") for defining string literals. Pasting smart quotes from a word processor into a code editor is a notorious source of frustrating syntax errors.
Tags
closing quote
curly double quote
quotation
punctuation
typography