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Left Corner Bracket vs Left Double Quotation Mark

Left Corner Bracket
300C
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Left Double Quotation Mark
201C
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Property Comparison

Property 「 300C “ 201C
Name Left Corner Bracket Left Double Quotation Mark
Category Quotation Marks Quotation Marks
Block CJK Symbols and Punctuation General Punctuation
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Open Punctuation (Ps) Initial Punctuation (Pi)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 300C 201C
Unicode U+300C U+201C
HTML Decimal 「 “
HTML Hex 「 “
CSS \300C \201C
JavaScript \u{300C} \u{201C}
Python \u300c \u201c
UTF-8 e3 80 8c e2 80 9c

How to Distinguish

Both Left Corner Bracket and Left Double Quotation Mark are in the Quotation Marks category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.

Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use charCodeAt() in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.

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