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Symbol

Description Languages Usage

„ " Quotation marks

Czech, German Commonly used in both.

„ " Quotation marks, low-high pair

Danish, Hungarian, Polish, Russian

Used in Russian to mark a quotation within a quotation Standard in Hungarian and Polish..

“ ” Smart quotation marks

Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish

Commonly used in all.

" " Quotation marks

Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Most commonly used quotation marks in Danish, Finnish, and Swedish. Used occasionally in Norwegian..

‘ ’ Single smart quotation marks

Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish

Used in English, Spanish, and Italian to mark a quotation within a quotation. Standard in Dutch

' ' Single quotation marks

Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Swedish

Used in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish to mark a quotation within a quotation. Used in Hungarian in philological texts.

" " Straight quotation marks

Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Occasionally used in Swedish instead of standard single smart quotation marks. Occasionally used in Finnish instead of quotation marks.

' ' Single straight quotation marks

Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Used to mark a quotation within a quotation.

� � Chevron quotation marks

French, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish

Used in Italian as an alternative to smart quotation marks.

� � Chevron quotation marks

Danish, German, Hungarian Used in Hungarian to mark a quotation within a quotation. Occasionally used in Danish

� � Chevron quotation marks

Finnish, Swedish Occasionally used in both languages.

       Left and right quotation marks

Chinese Standard.

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Ideographic quotation marks

Chinese, Japanese Standard.

; Question mark Greek Standard.

   Arabic question mark

Arabic Standard.

� ? Question marks

Spanish Standard. Used as a pair.

� ! Exclamation marks

Spanish Standard. Used as a pair.

. Semicolon Greek Standard.

    Arabic semicolon

Arabic Standard.

– En dash Most European languages Some languages, such as Czech, Danish, Dutch, and Swedish, use the en dash instead of the em dash. Spanish uses the en dash for hyphenated words and compound terms.

— Em dash All European languages except Danish and Swedish

The en dash and the em dash are not typically used together in a single document. In Spanish, the em dash is some times used for incidental clauses or text in dialog boxes.

    Ideographic comma

Chinese, Japanese Standard in both.

   Arabic comma Arabic Standard.

    Ideographic period

Chinese, Japanese Standard in both.

Can you figure out how these quotation marks are misused?