Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark «

U+00AB

Symbol Meaning

Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark. Latin-1 Supplement.

The symbol “Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark” is included in the “Latin-1 punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Latin-1 Supplement” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Synonyms

left guillemet, chevrons.

Unicode Name	Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Unicode Number
Entity	«
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Latin-1 Supplement
Unicode Subblock	Latin-1 punctuation and symbols
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Alt Code	Alt 174(English Keyboard Layout)

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
bmg	00BB
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	00AB
Simple case change	00AB
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Quotation_Mark	+
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	C2 AB	194 171	49835	11000010 10101011
UTF-16BE	00 AB	0 171	171	00000000 10101011
UTF-16LE	AB 00	171 0	43776	10101011 00000000
UTF-32BE	00 00 00 AB	0 0 0 171	171	00000000 00000000 00000000 10101011
UTF-32LE	AB 00 00 00	171 0 0 0	2868903936	10101011 00000000 00000000 00000000