Left-pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark Left Pointing Guillemet

U+00AB

Left-pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark Left Pointing Guillemet is the Unicode character « at codepoint U+00AB in the Latin-1 Supplement block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

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How to Use Left-pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark Left Pointing Guillemet

To use the Left-pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark Left Pointing Guillemet symbol («) in HTML, insert the entity « directly into your markup. The decimal entity « works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\AB';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u00AB' evaluates to «. In Python source, write '\u00AB'.

The character encodes to C2 AB as UTF-8 bytes and 00AB as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 171.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026