U+00BB "»" Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+00BB "»" Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark is a typographical symbol primarily used in various European languages, such as French, Italian, and Russian, to indicate the closing of a quotation, often paired with its left-pointing counterpart (U+00AB). It resembles two outward-facing pointed chevrons and is commonly referred to as a guillemet, a name derived from the French printer Guillaume Le Bé. In digital text, it is encoded in Latin-1 Supplement and can be used in linguistic contexts to denote cited speech or in programming and markup languages as a delimiter for specific syntax.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+00BB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Right Pointing Guillemet |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| General Category | Final Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Mirrored | Yes |
| Mirrored Character | "«" U+00AB Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | » |
| HTML Hex Encoding | » |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC2 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x00BB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000000BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u00bb |
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 |