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Right Double Quote symbol

Type :right_double_quote: · Punctuation

What ” is for

The closing curly double quote. Paired with its opening twin, it is what makes typeset prose look typeset. Getting the pair backwards is the most common way curly quotes go wrong.

How to type ”

The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With Emoji Anywhere installed you can skip all of them and type :right_double_quote: in any text field instead, which is the same on every platform.

macOS

Option + Shift + [

Windows

Alt + 0148

Hold Alt and type the digits on the keypad.

Shortcodes

:right_double_quote:

On the web

HTML ”

Unicode U+201D

What ” gets mistaken for

"

straight double quote

The same character opens and closes, which is exactly why code prefers it and typography does not.

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:right_double_quote:
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