Unicode Character "«" (U+00AB)

The character « (Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00AB. It is encoded in the Latin-1 Supplement block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as «. Its mirrored character is » (U+00BB).

Main Unicode Properties

Name Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Unicode Codepoint U+00AB
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Latin-1 Supplement
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? Yes
Mirrored character » (U+00BB)

Other Unicode Data

Category Initial Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+00AB Conversion

HTML (decimal) «
HTML (hex) «
HTML (named) «
URL Escape Code %C2%AB
CSS \0000AB
JavaScript, JSON \u00AB
C, C++, Java \u00AB
Python \u00AB
Rust \u{00AB}
Ruby \u00AB

How to type "«"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 0 A B. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 0 A B. Release Alt.

Preview

  • «
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • «
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • «
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xAB
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00AB
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000AB

References