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heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament

Heavy Double Turned Comma Quotation Mark Ornament

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❝ is an extra-bold decorative opening quotation mark. It is used when an opener needs visual prominence, such as at the start of a highlighted excerpt, motto, or graphic title. If someone sends it alone in a chat, it usually signals that a quote or reply is about to follow.

Text symbol

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 readings

A deliberate decorative opener setting off a featured quotation.

Don't confuse it with

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Combination ideas

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Frames a quote in bold ornamental marks
Quote with credit to who said it
Here's what they said
A matched decorative pair framing an important statement or motto.

Worth 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

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Can ❝ 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 ❝

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How 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
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 275D, then AltX 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 “heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 275d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
❝
CSS
\275D
Mac
Press ControlCommandSpace to open Character Viewer and search for "heavy double turned" or U275D.
Windows
In supported apps like Word, type 275D and press AltX, or copy it from Character Map.
Linux (GNOME)
Press CtrlShiftU, type 275d, and press Enter.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
❝
HTML hex
❝
CSS content
content: "\275D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9D%9D
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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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