Quotation Mark
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 34 on the numeric keypad to insert quotation mark.
- Alt code
- Alt+34
- HTML entity
- "
- Unicode
- U+0022
About this symbol
The straight double quotation mark is a typewriter compromise: one key served for both opening and closing quotation marks, and for the inch and second signs. Good typography replaces it with the curly “ and ”, which this site uses throughout.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- QUOTATION MARK
- Also called
- Double quote
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation and symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Neutral (vertical), used as opening or closing quotation mark
- Preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are 201C & 201D
- 05F4 is preferred for gershayim when writing Hebrew
- Related
- ʺ Modifier Letter Double Prime U+02BA˝ Double Acute Accent U+02DDˮ Modifier Letter Double Apostrophe U+02EE◌̋ Combining Double Acute Accent U+030B◌̎ Combining Double Vertical Line Above U+030E״ Hebrew Punctuation Gershayim U+05F4〃 Ditto Mark U+3003
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.