LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
- Category
- Pi — Initial Punctuation
- Block
- General Punctuation
- Script
- Common
- Plane
- Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
- Decimal
- 8220
Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.
| Encoding | Bytes (Hex) | Bytes (Decimal) | Byte count |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 80 9C | 226 128 156 | 3 |
| UTF-16 LE | 1C 20 | 28 32 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 20 1C | 32 28 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | 1C 20 00 00 | 28 32 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 20 1C | 0 0 32 28 | 4 |
| ASCII | not supported | ||
| Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) | not supported | ||
| Windows-1252 | 93 | 147 | 1 |
| ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) | not supported | ||
| ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) | not supported | ||
| KOI8-R | not supported | ||
| Shift-JIS | 81 67 | 129 103 | 2 |
| EUC-JP | A1 C8 | 161 200 | 2 |
| GBK | A1 B0 | 161 176 | 2 |
| Big5 | A1 A7 | 161 167 | 2 |
Escape Sequences
How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.
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View U+201C on CharLookup.com ↗UTF-8 Binary Breakdown
UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.
Unicode Properties
- Unicode Version
- Introduced in Unicode 1.1
- Bidi Class
- ON — Other Neutral