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Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark

Group: Punctuation

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About this character

Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+00AB. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point
U+00AB
Hex
00AB
Decimal
171
HTML
«
CSS
\AB
JavaScript
\u00AB
Python
\u00AB
UTF-8
C2 AB

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

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