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Left guillemet
U+00AB · Latin-1 Supplement
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Meaning and uses
The opening guillemet, used as a quotation mark in French, Russian, Spanish and many other languages, as in «bonjour».
Unicode details
« is the Unicode character named LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK, code point U+00AB, in the Latin-1 Supplement block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as opening punctuation (general category Pi).
It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.
| Unicode name | LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+00AB |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Added | Unicode 1.1 (1993) |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 AB |
| UTF-16 | 00AB |
| HTML | « or « |
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How to type «
- On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
- In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 00AB and then press Alt+X to turn the code into «.
- On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “left-pointing double angle quotation mark”.
- On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 00ab, then Space or Enter.
- In HTML, use
«or«. In a CSScontentproperty, use"\00AB".