What ＂ means
Its full-width shape takes up a whole character slot.
Older Japanese fixed-cell systems gave Japanese characters square cells and Latin text narrower ones. The fullwidth quote aligned punctuation and worked with legacy encodings; Japanese word processors used it in the late 1970s.
Mainland Chinese text commonly sets Western-style quotes fullwidth; Japanese and Traditional Chinese writing commonly use paired corner brackets such as 「」.
Don't confuse it with
2“ ”
“ ” open and close separately; ＂ does not.
「」
「」 pair Japanese and Traditional Chinese quotation marks; ＂ is one unsided mark.
Questions people ask
1Can normalization turn ＂ into ASCII `"`?
Yes. NFKC is a text-cleanup rule that folds width variants, turning it into ASCII `"` and losing the width distinction.
How to type ＂
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType FF02, 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 “fullwidth quotation mark”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType ff02, then Enter or Space.
HTML
＂CSS
\FF02Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
＂
HTML hex
＂
CSS content
content: "\FF02";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EF%BC%82
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.