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Quotation frames and typographic lines
Ready-made pull quotes, ellipsis runs, and bracket framing.
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How to use punctuation symbols
Match the quotation marks to the language, not to your keyboard. English takes “ ” and ‘ ’, German takes „ “, French takes « », and Japanese and Chinese take 「 」. Word processors substitute these automatically, which is why text pasted out of a plain editor suddenly looks wrong. Dashes reward a moment of thought: the en dash – takes ranges such as 2019–2024, and the em dash — interrupts, though many editors now set it with spaces either side. Corner brackets ⌜ ⌟ and their filled counterparts are useful well beyond Japanese typesetting, since they frame a phrase in a bio or a heading without the closed feeling of parentheses. Two marks here are worth knowing: the interrobang ‽ combines a question and an exclamation into one glyph, and the irony mark ⸮ is a reversed question mark proposed several times across four centuries and never quite adopted.
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Professional writing and articles
Replace straight quotes with directional smart quotes and use the em dash character where a sentence needs a strong internal break.
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Multilingual content
Use « » for French and Russian quotations, „ " for German, ‹ › for nested quotes inside the outer ones. Each language has its own conventional quote pair.
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Footnote and reference marks
Use † for the first footnote, ‡ for the second, § for the third - a typographic convention in older books that's elegant for short, occasional notes.
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Math and statistical writing
Use ′ and ″ for feet and inches (5′ 11″), arcminutes and arcseconds in astronomy, and prime/double-prime notation in derivatives. The plain quote characters don't render as crisply for these uses.
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Decorative quote ornaments
❝ and ❞ are larger ornamental quote marks used for pull quotes and design accents - set off a key sentence in a long article with ❝ Quote ❞ for visual emphasis.
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Compatibility notes
Most symbols here work everywhere, but rare or decorative characters may not render on older devices and apps with limited fonts. Test a symbol on mobile before using it in a permanent username.
Frequently asked questions
Why do my quotation marks curl the wrong way?
Curly quotes are directional characters, and software guesses the direction from what precedes them. An opening quote after a space becomes “ and a closing quote after a letter becomes ”. The guess fails on an elided word such as ’tis or a decade written as ’90s, where the mark follows a space but should close. Pasting the correct character directly is the reliable fix.
When should I use an en dash instead of a hyphen?
A hyphen joins words into one idea, as in well-known or twenty-one. An en dash spans a range or a relationship between two separate things: pages 5–10, Monday–Friday, the London–Paris route. If you could replace the mark with the word "to" or "versus" and the sentence still works, an en dash is correct.
What is the interrobang for?
It merges a question mark and an exclamation mark into one character for a sentence that asks and exclaims at once, as in "you did what‽". An American advertising executive proposed it in 1962 and it briefly appeared on typewriters before fading. It has been in Unicode since the start and renders almost everywhere, which makes it usable, though most readers will find it unfamiliar enough to notice.