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Left Guillemet HTML entity «
« is the HTML entity for Left Guillemet « (U+00AB). Copy the decimal « and hex « codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
«- Legacy form
«(no semicolon)- Code point
- U+00AB
- Unicode name
- LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
- Block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Category
- Initial quote (Pi)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | «Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | «Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | «Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\AB";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u00AB"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u00ab"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %C2%ABPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 AB2 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 00AB1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
The opening guillemet, the quotation mark in French, Russian, Spanish and many other languages: «texte». French typography adds a narrow no-break space inside the marks ( ). Not to be confused with the single angle quote ‹.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
Browsers also accept the legacy form « without a semicolon, for compatibility with old pages; new HTML should always end the reference with a semicolon.
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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).