# « U+00AB LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

Left guillemet, double angle quotation mark pointing left, used as opening quotes in French, Russian, and other languages.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `«` |
| Codepoint | U+00AB |
| Name | LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK |
| Also known as | chevrons (in typography), left guillemet |
| Block | [Latin-1 Supplement](https://unicodekit.com/block/latin-1-supplement) |
| Script | Common |
| Category | Initial Punctuation (Pi) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `«` `«` |
| CSS | `\AB` |
| JavaScript | `\u00AB` |
| UTF-8 | C2 AB |
| UTF-16 | 00AB |

## Notes

- usually opening, sometimes closing

## Related characters

- ª [U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR](https://unicodekit.com/char/00AA)
- ¬ [U+00AC NOT SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00AC)
- © [U+00A9 COPYRIGHT SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00A9)
- [U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00AD)
- ¨ [U+00A8 DIAERESIS](https://unicodekit.com/char/00A8)
- ® [U+00AE REGISTERED SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00AE)
- § [U+00A7 SECTION SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00A7)
- ¯ [U+00AF MACRON](https://unicodekit.com/char/00AF)
- ¦ [U+00A6 BROKEN BAR](https://unicodekit.com/char/00A6)
- ° [U+00B0 DEGREE SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00B0)
- ¥ [U+00A5 YEN SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00A5)
- ± [U+00B1 PLUS-MINUS SIGN](https://unicodekit.com/char/00B1)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/00AB · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/00AB