Unicode Character "«" U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Unicode Version 15.1
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Summary
The unicode character "«" at code point U+00AB is Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark. It is a character in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is part of the Common script. The character is an initial punctuation. The UTF-8 encoding of "«" is 0xC2 0xAB and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x00AB.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00AB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Left Pointing Guillemet |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Initial Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "»" U+00BB Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Entity | « |
| HTML Decimal Encoding | « |
| HTML Hex Encoding | « |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00ab |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Quotation |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Quotation Mark | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Close |