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, guillemet, 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 English.
Representations
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| URL-Quoted | |
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| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | |
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| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP437 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP720 (hex bytes) | |
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| Encoding: CP850 (hex bytes) | |
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| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP865 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP869 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1026 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | |
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| Encoding: CP1255 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1256 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1257 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: LATIN_1 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_7 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_8 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_9 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_13 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_15 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: ISO8859_16 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: KOI8_T (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: KZ1048 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: MAC_CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: MAC_GREEK (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: MAC_ICELAND (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: MAC_LATIN2 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: MAC_ROMAN (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: MAC_TURKISH (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: PTCP154 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP037 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1047 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1112 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1122 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1140 (hex bytes) | |
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| Encoding: CP1146 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1147 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1148 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1148MS (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP1149 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP273 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP277 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP278 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP280 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP284 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP285 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP297 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP424 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP500 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP500MS (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP871 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP875 (hex bytes) | |
| LATEX | |
| AGL: Latin-1 | |
| AGL: Latin-2 | |
| AGL: Latin-3 | |
| AGL: Latin-4 | |
| AGL: Latin-5 | |
| Adobe Glyph List | |
| digraph | |
| RFC 5137 | |
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e | |
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Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 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 |