About Right Double Quotation Mark Double Comma Quotation Mark
Right Double Quotation Mark Double Comma Quotation Mark is the Unicode character ” at codepoint U+201D in the General Punctuation block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Reference
English closes a double quotation with it. Swedish and Finnish open with it too: CLDR gives both locales the same mark at each end, so the character English typography calls a closing quote starts sentences across the Baltic. Polish opens low with U+201E and closes with this one. Unicode declines to arbitrate — it names shapes, not rules, and unlike its opening partner this entry carries no "preferred character" note at all. It is general category Pf, final punctuation, Windows-1252 0x94, and it has three named HTML entities. The chart cross-references U+2033 DOUBLE PRIME, which means inches and arcseconds and is a genuinely different mark.
Typical uses
- Closing a double quotation in English
- Both ends of a quotation in Swedish and Finnish
- Closing a quotation in Polish, which opens low with U+201E
At a glance
- U+201D, General Punctuation; Unicode 1.1; general category Pf
- HTML: ”, ” or ”. Windows-1252 0x94
- No "preferred character" note in the chart, unlike U+201C
- Cross-referenced to U+2033 DOUBLE PRIME — inches, not quotation
Historical Notes
Origins
Two raised commas. Its Unicode alias, double comma quotation mark, describes exactly that, and the opening mark is the same pair turned around. The typewriter replaced both with one vertical stroke, and that stroke is what ASCII carried into computing.
Unicode
Unicode 1.1, General Punctuation, general category Pf. Its cross-references are U+0022, U+2033 DOUBLE PRIME, the ornament U+275E and U+301E, a form used in East Asian typography. It has three standardised variation sequences — non-fullwidth, left-justified fullwidth and a Sibe form.
Same mark, both ends
Swedish and Finnish set this character at the opening and closing of a quotation. CLDR records it directly: both locales give quotation start as this mark, and inherit the same mark for quotation end. The English assumption that a curly quote is directional does not travel.
Developer Notes
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How to Use Right Double Quotation Mark Double Comma Quotation Mark
To use the Right Double Quotation Mark Double Comma Quotation Mark symbol (”) in HTML, insert the
entity ” directly into your markup. The decimal entity ” works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\201D';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u201D' evaluates to ”. In Python source, write '\u201D'.
The character encodes to E2 80 9D as UTF-8 bytes and 201D as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 8221.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.
Things to know
- U+2033 DOUBLE PRIME is the character for inches, arcseconds and minutes of time. Writing 6" with this mark is an error nothing will flag, because it is a valid character doing the wrong job.
- Windows-1252 0x94, so it round-trips through legacy eight-bit data and mojibakes when encodings are confused.
- Do not hard-code it as a closing mark. Swedish and Finnish use it at both ends; read CLDR if you are generating quotes by locale.
- Three named entities resolve to it: ”, ” and ”.
- General category Pf, final punctuation — distinct from the straight mark's Po, which matters to category-based tokenisers.
Comparisons
In the Wild
Dagens Nyheter, on 4 August 2026, carried 64 of these and zero of the opening mark — every quotation opened and closed with the same character. Investerare: ”Räkna med fler inlägg som påverkar marknaden.” Statsministern om Jomshof: ”Osmakligt”. Expert: ”Sandlådeeffekt – alla riskerar dras med”. That is CLDR's Swedish locale in the wild, and it is not a rendering accident: the page carried no other curly double quote at all.
Der Spiegel is the mirror image. Four opening marks, four low-9 marks, and zero of this character — German closes with the mark English opens with.
The New York Times used it four times, paired conventionally with the opening mark in body copy. Le Monde carried three pairs against 100 pairs of guillemets. BBC News, NOS and both Wikipedia articles read that day carried none, all of them setting straight quotes instead. Pages change; this is what those showed on the day.
FAQ
Does it always close a quotation?
No. Swedish and Finnish use it at both ends, and Polish uses it to close a quotation that opened with U+201E.
What is the difference from a double prime?
U+2033 DOUBLE PRIME means inches, arcseconds and minutes of time and is drawn as two slanted strokes. This is a quotation mark. Nothing will warn you if you swap them.
Why does German not use it?
German opens with U+201E and closes with U+201C. CLDR records that pairing directly.
Which HTML entity should I use?
” is the common one. ” and ” are equivalent.
Why do my quotes come out straight?
Something in the chain is not curling, or is normalising to the straight mark. That is a pipeline question, not a font one.