How do I type the 〝 reversed double prime quotation mark symbol?

On Windows, type 301D and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 301d. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.

What is the code for 〝?

Reversed Double Prime Quotation Mark is U+301D. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.

What kind of character is 〝?

Reversed Double Prime Quotation Mark is filed under Opening punctuation in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, and was introduced in Unicode 1.1. This is an opening bracket. Editors that highlight matching pairs, and bidirectional text algorithms, both key off this category rather than off the glyph.

U+301D · Opening punctuation

Reversed Double Prime Quotation Mark Symbol 〝

〝 is reversed double prime quotation mark, U+301D, in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block. It was added in Unicode 1.1, and Unicode files it under Opening punctuation.

What Unicode says about 〝

sometimes depicted as double prime quotation mark

— annotation from the Unicode Standard, NamesList.txt

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+301D`
HTML hex	`〝`
HTML decimal	`〝`
CSS	`\301D`
JavaScript	`\u{301D}`
Python	`\U0000301D`
Java / C#	`\u301D`
Rust	`\u{301d}`
Swift	`\u{301D}`
PHP	`\u{301D}`
URL encoded	`%E3%80%9D`
UTF-8 bytes	`E3 80 9D`
UTF-16 bytes	`301D`
Base64	`44Cd`
Decimal	`12317`
Category	Opening punctuation (Ps)
Introduced	Unicode 1.1

Will 〝 survive being pasted?

Normalisation. Yes. 〝 is unchanged by NFKC, so it survives normalising systems intact.
Legacy encodings. 〝 is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.

Unicode cross-references

The standard points readers of 〝 at these characters — usually because they look alike, or because one is the correct choice where the other is often used by mistake.

Other quotation characters

Unicode names 14 characters ending in “quotation”. They differ by direction, weight or decoration rather than by meaning.

Nearby in CJK Symbols and Punctuation

The punctuation Chinese, Japanese and Korean typography needs — the ideographic full stop and comma, corner brackets, the iteration mark, and the wave dash.

All 48 characters in CJK Symbols and Punctuation →

How to type 〝

Windows	Type `301D` then press `Alt`+`X`
macOS	Press `Ctrl`+`Cmd`+`Space`, then search for “reversed double prime quotation mark”
Linux	Press `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`U`, type `301d`, press `Enter`
HTML	`〝`

About Unicode’s Opening punctuation category

This is an opening bracket. Editors that highlight matching pairs, and bidirectional text algorithms, both key off this category rather than off the glyph.

Frequently asked questions

How do I type the 〝 reversed double prime quotation mark symbol?: On Windows, type 301D and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 301d. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
What is the code for 〝?: Reversed Double Prime Quotation Mark is U+301D. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
What kind of character is 〝?: Reversed Double Prime Quotation Mark is filed under Opening punctuation in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, and was introduced in Unicode 1.1. This is an opening bracket. Editors that highlight matching pairs, and bidirectional text algorithms, both key off this category rather than off the glyph.