U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
U+00AB was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Initial Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as left guillemet and chevrons (in typography).
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark. U+00AB prohibits a line break around it.
The CLDR project calls this character “left guillemet” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: angle, brackets, carets, chevron, left, quote.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Guillemets (, also UK: , US: , French: [ɡijəmɛ]) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons, « and », used as quotation marks in a number of languages. In some of these languages, "single" guillemets, ‹ and ›, are used for a quotation inside another quotation. Guillemets are not conventionally used in the English language.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 171 |
| UTF-8 | C2 AB |
| UTF-16 | 00 AB |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 00 AB |
| URL-Quoted | %C2%AB |
| HTML hex reference | « |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | « |
| HTML named entity | « |
| HTML named entity | « |
| alias | left guillemet |
| alias | chevrons (in typography) |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-16 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | C7 |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | AB |
| Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | C7 |
| LATEX | \guillemotleft |
| AGL: Latin-1 | guillemotleft |
| AGL: Latin-2 | guillemotleft |
| AGL: Latin-3 | guillemotleft |
| AGL: Latin-4 | guillemotleft |
| AGL: Latin-5 | guillemotleft |
| Adobe Glyph List | guillemotleft |
| digraph | << |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK | |
| LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET | |
| Latin-1 Supplement | |
| Initial Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Close | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Quotation | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark | |
| R |