" (disambiguation)

Look up ", " ", inverted comma, quotation mark, ’, ″, 〃, or ״ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The symbol " is a Quotation mark (a punctuation mark used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase).

The mark " also resembles other characters, and is sometimes substituted for them:

  • Double prime (″), used for:
    • Inch, a unit of length in the United States customary and the obsolete (British) Imperial systems of measurement
    • Arcsecond, a fraction of an arcminute
  • Ditto mark (〃), a typographic symbol indicating that the word(s) or figure(s) above it are to be repeated
  • Gershayim (״), a typographical mark in the Hebrew language
  • Modifier letter double apostrophe (ˮ), a modifier letter used in the Tundra Nenets and Dan languages
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