What ❝ means
It provides a bold, decorative opening mark for featured words. Standard curved quotation marks blend softly into running sentences, whereas ❝ has heavy, deliberate strokes that draw the eye.
Layouts often feature it in larger sizes to frame notable quotations, testimonials, or article headers. In ordinary body text, its thickness makes it stand out conspicuously against regular letters.
What does it mean when someone sends ❝?
Sent alone, it usually acts as an opening prompt for an incoming quote. The sender may be queuing up someone else's words or giving extra visual flair to an upcoming comment.
Because its curved commas point inward to begin a thought, a lone ❝ looks unfinished. It simply asks the reader to wait for the actual statement.
Bold, expressive, and decorative; noticeably heavy in standard formal prose.
It opens a quote but never closes one; pairing it with standard punctuation looks mismatched.
Part of collections
What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsA deliberate decorative opener setting off a featured quotation.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
4Worth knowing
- The glyph originated in Hermann Zapf's 1978 ITC Zapf Dingbats typeface before being standardized in Unicode.
- It is encoded as a standard text symbol rather than an emoji, so it renders in the active font's text style.
Questions people ask
2Can ❝ be used to close a quote?
No. Its bulbs point downward and its tails curl up, which visually opens text. Use to close it.
Why does ❝ look so prominent in regular sentences?
It was designed as a bold decorative display mark, so its stroke weight is far heavier than standard body type.
Collections with ❝
15How to type or find ❝
- Also called
- heavy opening quote · bold open quote ornament · decorative opening quotation mark
- Search it as
- heavy quotation mark · bold quote symbol · opening quote ornament · decorative quotation mark · double turned comma · zapf dingbats quote
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
❝\275DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.



