U+00BB "»" Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

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
Name
Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark
Unicode 1.0 Name
Right Pointing Guillemet

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xC2 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x00BB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000000BB
C/C++/Java Escape
\u00bb