HTML Entity Detail

HTML Entity - Bottom Single Quote

Bottom Single Quote is a quotation marks, guillemets, and quote variants across languages. This HTML entity enables web developers to display this character reliably across all browsers without encoding issues.

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‚

Unicode

U+201A

HTML entity

&sbquo;

CSS code

\201A

Usage Examples

Use this HTML entity in typographically correct quotes, especially in multilingual content. Different languages use different quote styles.

Related Entities

" Double Quotation Mark “ Left Double Quotes « Left Angle Quotes (french: Opening Guillemet) ‹ Left Single Angle Quotes (french: Opening Guillemet) ‘ Left Single Quote ” Right Double Quotes, "high 99" (english: Closing) » Right Angle Quotes (french: Closing Guillemet) ' Single Quotation Mark (apostrophe)

Common Mistakes

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Mistake: Using straight quotes (") instead of curly quotes (“ ”) in prose

Fix: Straight quotes are fine for code but look unprofessional in displayed text. Use “ and ” for opening and closing curly double quotes in English prose.

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Mistake: Using the wrong quote style for the language

Fix: Different languages use different quotation styles: English uses “...”, French uses «...» (guillemets), German uses „...“, Japanese uses 「...」. Use the correct style for your content language.

Bottom Single Quote

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Category: Quotation Marks

Unicode	`U+201A`
Hex Code	`‚`
HTML Code	`‚`
HTML Entity	`&sbquo;`
CSS Code	`\201A`
Windows Shortcut	`Alt 0130`
Mac Shortcut	`⌥S`

HTML code example

<span>&#8218;</span>

CSS code example

span {
    content : "\201A";
}

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