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double high-reversed-9 quotation mark

Double High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark

‟ is a raised opening mark used where a typographic style calls for it. Greek typography gives it a nested-quotation role. Some fonts draw it like a rotated curly quote, so its shape can surprise.

Text symbol
Also called
high reversed-9 quote · second-level Greek opening quote
Search it as
reversed 9 quote · Greek quote · opening quote · curly quote
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ‟ means

It opens quoted text where a style calls for it. Quotation marks grew from citation signs: around 1483/84, Francesco Filelfo consistently marked citations in print. In the sixteenth century they also marked direct speech; in the eighteenth century, forms moved toward modern punctuation.

For a Greek quote inside a quote, ‟ is a common opening mark, noted in typography commentary in 2007. Other styles use different quote patterns.

A style-specific opener; use it where the language or house style calls for it.

In German prose, it can look mis-set.

Don't confuse it with

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“
Left Double Quotation Mark
Unicode 16.0.0 describes fonts drawing ‟ as a rotated or mirrored “; some make the pair look swapped.
„
Double Low-9 Quotation Mark
German „…“ opens low; ‟ sits high, so it is not the usual German opener.

Questions people ask

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Why does ‟ show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type ‟

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 201F, then Alt+X to get ‟.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “double high-reversed-9 quotation mark”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 201f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
‟
CSS
\201F
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
‟
HTML hex
‟
CSS content
content: "\201F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%80%9F
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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