Unicode Character "»" (U+00BB)

The character » (RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+00BB. 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+00AB).

Main Unicode Properties

Name RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
Unicode Codepoint U+00BB
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+00AB)

Other Unicode Data

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

U+00BB Conversion

HTML (decimal) »
HTML (hex) »
HTML (named) »
URL Escape Code %C2%BB
CSS \00BB
JavaScript \u{00BB}
JSON \u00BB
C, C++ \U000000BB
Java \u00BB
Python \U000000BB
Rust \u{00BB}
Ruby \u{00BB}

How to type "»"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xC2 0xBB
UTF-16 (hex) 0x00BB
UTF-32 (hex) 0x000000BB

References