LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

Codepoint

U+00AB

Literal Character

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Name

LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK

Sketch

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Aliases

left guillemet
chevrons (in typography)

Control Character

no

Block

Latin-1 Supplement

Subblock

Latin-1 punctuation and symbols

UTF-8 byte encoding

c2 ab

UTF-16 byte encoding

00 ab (big endian)

HTML Entity

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Perl string literal

\x{AB}

Comments

• usually opening, sometimes closing

See Also

U+226A: much less-than
U+300A: left double angle bracket

Wikipedia

Guillemet (en)