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August 2025
- Copy to clipboard added.
- Unicode 16.0 update.
Blocks Added
- Tulu‑Tigalari – new: 80 characters
- Garay – new: 69 characters
- Gurung Khema – new: 58 characters
- Kirat Rai – new: 58 characters
- Todhri – new: 52 characters
- Sunuwar – new: 44 characters
- Ol Onal – new: 44 characters
LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK character
LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK specifications
Name:
LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARKHex Number:
U+00ABDecimal Number:
171HTML Entity (Dec):
«HTML Entity (Hex):
«Alternate Name:
LEFT POINTING GUILLEMETCategory:
Pi (Initial Punctuation (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage))Bidi Class:
ON (Other Neutrals)Mirrored:
YDecomposition:
Combining Class:
0Unicode Block:
Latin-1 SupplementScript:
Common Plane:
0Plane Code:
BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane)Plane Range:
0000-FFFFCharacter Preview:
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About LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
Left-pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark (U+00AB) is a Unicode initial quote from the Latin-1 Supplement block. It resides on Plane 0 (BMP, Basic Multilingual Plane), has bidirectional class ON (other neutrals), is mirrored, and has combining class 0 (Not Reordered). In HTML it can be written as « or «.