U+00AB "«" Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark Unicode Character

U+00AB "«" Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark is a punctuation symbol used primarily in French and other European languages to indicate the beginning of a quotation, where it is paired with the right-pointing "»" (U+00BB) to enclose spoken dialogue or cited text. It also appears in mathematics as a symbol for angle brackets and in computer science for bitwise shift operators, though its most common role is in typography, where it is known as a guillemet. In languages like French, a thin space typically separates it from the quoted text inside, distinguishing it from the single chevron used in nested quotations or informal contexts.