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U+201C CHARACTER

LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK

Quick Facts

Unicode Name LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
Code Point U+201C
Decimal Value 8220
General Category Initial Punctuation (Pi) →
Unicode Block General Punctuation →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E2 80 9C
UTF-16 Code Unit 201C
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000201C
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 20 1C LE: 1C 20
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 20 1C LE: 1C 20 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal “
HTML Hexadecimal “
HTML Named Entity “
CSS Escape \00201C
JavaScript (ES6) \u201C
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u201C
JSON Escape \u201C
Python \u201C
PHP "\u{201C}"
Java "\u201C"
C / C++ "\u201C"
Rust '\u{201c}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E2%80%9C

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+201C across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A “ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A “ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A “ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A “ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+201C

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