Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark «
Symbol Meaning
Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark. Latin-1 Supplement.
The symbol “Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark” is included in the “Latin-1 punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Latin-1 Supplement” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
left guillemet, chevrons.
| Unicode Name | Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | « |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Unicode Subblock | Latin-1 punctuation and symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
Alt 174(English Keyboard Layout)
|
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| bmg | 00BB |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 00AB |
| Simple case change | 00AB |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Quotation_Mark | + |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 AB | 194 171 | 49835 | 11000010 10101011 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 AB | 0 171 | 171 | 00000000 10101011 |
| UTF-16LE | AB 00 | 171 0 | 43776 | 10101011 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 AB | 0 0 0 171 | 171 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 10101011 |
| UTF-32LE | AB 00 00 00 | 171 0 0 0 | 2868903936 | 10101011 00000000 00000000 00000000 |