Left Double Quotation Mark vs Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
VS
Property Comparison
| Property | “ 201C | » 00BB |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Left Double Quotation Mark | Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark |
| Category | Quotation Marks | Quotation Marks |
| Block | General Punctuation | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Initial Punctuation (Pi) | Final Punctuation (Pf) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 201C | 00BB |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+201C | U+00BB |
| HTML Decimal | “ | » |
| HTML Hex | “ | » |
| CSS | \201C | \00BB |
| JavaScript | \u{201C} | \u{BB} |
| Python | \u201c | \u00bb |
| UTF-8 | e2 80 9c | c2 bb |
How to Distinguish
Both Left Double Quotation Mark and Right-Pointing Double Angle 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.