Quotation mark

Punctuation mark with various forms redirects here. For other uses, see " (disambiguation). This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Quotation mark" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) “ ” " "‘ ’ ' 'oEnglish quotation marksOther namesquotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, talking marks « » 「 」 Guillemets CJK brackets Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same glyph. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media. Historyedit This section needs more citations. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2026) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The single quotation mark is traced to Ancient Greek practice, adopted and adapted