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Glyph for U+00AB
Source: Noto Sans

U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark

U+00AB was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0080 to U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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 a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is mirrored. Its corresponding mirrored glyph is Glyph for U+00BB Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark. In text U+00AB behaves as Quotation regarding line breaks. It has type Close for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “left guillemet” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: angle, brackets, carets, chevron, left, left guillemet, 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 &laquo
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
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
Unicode 1 Name LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET
Block Latin-1 Supplement
General Category Initial Punctuation
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Case Folding Glyph for U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic ✘
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✔
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✘
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✘
Changes When Uppercased ✘
Cased ✘
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✘
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base ✔
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue ✘
ID Start ✘
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
Ideographic ✘
Indic Mantra Category —
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name —
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✘
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✘
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✔
Pattern White Space ✘
Quotation Mark ✔
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Close
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✘
Terminal Punctuation ✘
Unified Ideograph ✘
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break Other
White Space ✘
XID Continue ✘
XID Start ✘
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✘
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✘
Bidi Mirrored Glyph Glyph for U+00BB Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment —
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Quotation
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R