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For guidelines on quotation mark usage in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Quotation marks.
Quotation marks, also known as quotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, or talking marks,[1][2] are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off 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 character.[3]
The symbol " redirects here. For other uses, see " (disambiguation).
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Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.