U+00BB was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Latin-1 Supplement in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Final Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as right guillemet.
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 . In text U+00BB behaves as Quotation regarding line breaks. It has
type Close for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Guillemets (/ˈɡɪləmɛt/, or /ɡiːəˈmeɪ/; French: [ɡijmɛ]), also called angle quotes, Latin quotation marks, or French quotation marks, are polylines pointed like arrows (« or »), sometimes forming a complementary set of punctuation marks used as a form of quotation mark.
The symbol at either end—double « and » or single ‹ and ›—is a guillemet. They are used in a number of languages to indicate speech. They resemble the symbols for lesser than (<), greater than (>), as well as rewind and fast forward on various media players, such as VCRs, DVD players, and MP3 players.
System | Representation |
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Nº | 187 |
UTF-8 | C2 BB |
UTF-16 | 00 BB |
UTF-32 | 00 00 00 BB |
URL-Quoted | %C2%BB |
HTML-Escape | » |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | » |
HTML-Escape | » |
digraph | >> |
alias | right guillemet |
LaTeX | \guillemotright |
Encoding: ISO-8859-13 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: ISO-8859-15 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: ISO-8859-16 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: ISO-8859-7 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: ISO-8859-8 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: MACINTOSH (hex bytes) | C8 |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1250 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1251 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1252 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1253 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1254 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1255 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1257 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | BB |
Encoding: X-MAC-CYRILLIC (hex bytes) | C8 |
Property | Value |
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Age (age) | 1.1 |
Unicode Name (na) | RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK |
Unicode 1 Name (na1) | RIGHT POINTING GUILLEMET |
Block (blk) | Latin_1_Sup |
General Category (gc) | Final Punctuation |
Script (sc) | Common |
Bidirectional Category (bc) | Other Neutral |
Combining Class (ccc) | Not Reordered |
Decomposition Type (dt) | None |
Decomposition Mapping (dm) |
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Lowercase (Lower) | ✘ |
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
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Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
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Uppercase (Upper) | ✘ |
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
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Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
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Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
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Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
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Case Folding (cf) |
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ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘ |
Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✘ |
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘ |
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✔ |
Bidi Mirrored Glyph (bmg) |
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Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) |
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Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
Cased (Cased) | ✘ |
Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘ |
Case Ignorable (CI) | ✘ |
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘ |
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) | ✘ |
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) | ✘ |
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) | ✘ |
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) | ✘ |
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) | ✘ |
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) | ✘ |
Dash (Dash) | ✘ |
Deprecated (Dep) | ✘ |
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘ |
Diacritic (Dia) | ✘ |
East Asian Width (ea) | Neutral |
Extender (Ext) | ✘ |
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
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Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✔ |
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✘ |
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘ |
Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘ |
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘ |
ID Continue (IDC) | ✘ |
Ideographic (Ideo) | ✘ |
ID Start (IDS) | ✘ |
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘ |
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘ |
InMC (InMC) | — |
Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
Join Control (Join_C) | ✘ |
Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
Line Break (lb) | Quotation |
Logical Order Exception (LOE) | ✘ |
Math (Math) | ✘ |
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) | ✘ |
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) | Yes |
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) | Yes |
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) |
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NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | Yes |
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | Yes |
Numeric Type (nt) | None |
Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) | ✘ |
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) | ✘ |
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) | ✘ |
Other ID Continue (OIDC) | ✘ |
Other ID Start (OIDS) | ✘ |
Other Lowercase (OLower) | ✘ |
Other Math (OMath) | ✘ |
Other Uppercase (OUpper) | ✘ |
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✔ |
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘ |
Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✔ |
Radical (Radical) | ✘ |
Sentence Break (SB) | Close |
Simple Case Folding (scf) |
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Script Extension (scx) | Common |
Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘ |
STerm (STerm) | ✘ |
Terminal Punctuation (Term) | ✘ |
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | ✘ |
Variation Selector (VS) | ✘ |
Word Break (WB) | Other |
White Space (WSpace) | ✘ |
XID Continue (XIDC) | ✘ |
XID Start (XIDS) | ✘ |
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) | ✘ |
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) | ✘ |
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) | ✘ |
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) | ✘ |