Unicode Character "“" U+201C Left Double Quotation Mark

Unicode Version 15.1

Summary

The unicode character "“" at code point U+201C is Left Double Quotation Mark. It is a character in the General Punctuation block and is part of the Common script. The character is an initial punctuation. The UTF-8 encoding of "“" is 0xE2 0x80 0x9C and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x201C.

General Properties

Code Point U+201C
Version Added 1.1
Name Left Double Quotation Mark
Unicode 1.0 Name Double Turned Comma Quotation Mark
Block General Punctuation
General Category Initial Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Entity “
“
HTML Decimal Encoding “
HTML Hex Encoding “
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x80 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x201C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000201C
C/C++/Java Escape \u201c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Quotation
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Quotation Mark Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Close