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Quotation marks [A] are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. [3] Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.
In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [1] [2] speech marks, [3] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.
U+00AB « LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK; U+00BB » RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK; U+2039 ‹ SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK; U+203A › SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK; Despite their names, the characters are mirrored when used in right-to-left contexts.
LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK; RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK; U+201C; U+201D; Pi, initial; Pf, final; Common ‟ DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK U+201F: Pi, initial ...
Question mark: Inverted question mark, Interrobang “ ” " " ‘ ’ ' ' Quotation marks: Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime: Inch, Second ® Registered trademark symbol: Trademark symbol ※ Reference mark: Asterisk, Dagger: Footnote ¤ Scarab (non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) § Section sign ...
This article is a list of standard proofreader's marks used to indicate and correct problems in a text. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols.
The left single quotation mark has been used as an acceptable approximation to the ʻokina, though it still has problems: the ʻokina is a letter, not a punctuation mark, which may cause incorrect behaviour in automated text processing. Additionally, the left single quotation mark is represented in some typefaces by a mirrored "9" glyph, rather ...
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