Right Guillemet HTML entity »

» is the HTML entity for Right Guillemet » (U+00BB). Copy the decimal » and hex » codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity
»
Legacy form
&raquo (no semicolon)
Code point
U+00BB
Unicode name
RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
Block
Latin-1 Supplement
Category
Final quote (Pf)
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.
CSScontent: "\BB";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript"\u00BB"Also valid in JSON.
Python"\u00bb"Python 3 string literal.
Python by name"\N{RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL%C2%BBPercent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytesC2 BB2 bytes.
UTF-1600BB1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

The closing guillemet, paired with «. On the web it is also common as a 'more' or breadcrumb marker, as in Home » Blog, though a CSS pseudo-element keeps such decoration out of the text.

The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.

Browsers also accept the legacy form &raquo 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).