Left Double Quote symbol
Type :left_double_quote: · Punctuation
Unicode name Left Double Quotation Mark · General Punctuation block · added in Unicode 1.1, 1993
What “ is for
The opening curly double quote. Word processors insert it automatically and plain-text fields do not, which is why quotes look right in a document and wrong the moment they are pasted into a form.
How to type “
The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With
Emoji Anywhere
installed you can skip all of them and type
:left_double_quote: in any text field instead, which
is the same on every platform.
macOS
Option + [
Windows
Alt + 0147
Hold Alt and type the digits on the keypad.
Shortcodes
:left_double_quote: On the web
HTML “
Unicode U+201C
JavaScript '\u{201C}'
CSS "\201C"
Python '\u201C'
URL %E2%80%9C
What “ gets mistaken for
straight double quote
The keyboard key. Correct in code, where curly quotes are a syntax error, and lazy in prose.
More from punctuation
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