quotation mark

English

Noun

quotation mark (plural quotation marks)

1. A symbol used to denote a quotation in writing, written at the beginning and end of the quotation. The symbols vary across languages, and slightly different marks are used for the beginning and end. Those used in English are “ ... ”, or " ... ", and ‘ ... ’, or ' ... '.
   • Example: “this is a quotation.” Here is ‘another quotation.’

Synonyms

(of the plural) quotes, speech marks

See also

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
• square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )
• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
• full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
• semicolon ( ; )
• slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
• space ( ] [ )

Translations

Note: The following languages use “◌”-style quotation marks, unless otherwise indicated.

• Afrikaans: aanhalingstekens [„◌”]
• Belarusian: двукоссі, лапкі [«◌»], [„◌“]
• Bulgarian: кавичка (kavička) Template:f, кавички (kavički) | [«◌»] or [„◌“]
• Catalan: cometa Template:f [«◌»] or [“◌”]
• Chinese:

  Simplified: 引号 (yǐnhào) [“◌”]

  Traditional: 引號 (yǐnhào) [「◌」] or [“◌”]

• Czech: uvozovka Template:f [„◌”]
• Danish: anførelsestegn Template:n [»◌«]
• Dutch: aanhalingsteken Template:n [„◌”]
• Estonian: jutumärgid [„◌“] or [«◌»]
• Finnish: lainausmerkki [”◌”] or [»◌»] (mainly in literature)
• French: guillemet [« ◌ »]
• Georgian: ბრჭყალები (brč‘q‘alebi) [„◌“]
• German: Anführungszeichen Template:n [„◌“] or [»◌«]
• Greek: εισαγωγικά n or pl (eisagogiká) (eisagogiká) [«◌»] or [“◌”]
• Hebrew: מֵרְכָאוֹת (merkha'ot) Template:f [“◌”] or [“◌„]
• Hungarian: idézőjel [„◌”]
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: gæsalappir [„◌“]
• Ido: citohoketo
• Italian: virgolette Template:f [«◌»]
• Japanese: 引用符 (in’yōfu) [「◌」] or [『◌』]
• Korean: 따옴표 (ttaompyo) [“◌”] or [「◌」]
• Latvian: pēdiņas [«◌»] or [„◌”]
• Lithuanian: kabutės [„◌“] or [«◌»]
• Norwegian: anførselstegn, gåseauge [«◌»] or [„◌”]
• Polish: cudzysłów [„◌”]
• Portuguese: aspa Template:f [«◌»] or [“◌”] (Portugal), ["◌"] or [“◌”] (Brazil)
• Romanian: ghilimele Template:f [„…“] or [«◌»]
• Russian: кавычки (kavýčki) Template:f [«◌»] or [„◌“]
• Slovene: narekovaj [„◌“]
• Spanish: [«◌»] (Spain), [“◌”] (Latin America), or ‘◌’
• Swedish: anföringstecken, citationstecken | [”◌”] or [»◌»]
• Turkish: tırnak işareti [«◌»] or [“◌”]
• Ukrainian: лапки (lapkí) Template:f [«◌»] or [„◌“]
• West Frisian: oanhelteken Template:n [„◌”]