Left Double Quotation Mark
U+201C · decimal 8220 · General Punctuation
Every way to write it
7 forms“
A named entity — readable, and safe in any HTML document without declaring a charset.
“
The numeric form works everywhere a named one does, and exists for every character.
\201C
For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.
\u201C
Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.
\u201C
The escape for a Python string literal.
%E2%80%9C
Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.
E2 80 9C
3 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.
Typing it without copying
system pickerControl + Command + Space, then search left double quotation mark
Character Map or Alt + 8220