Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark

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Symbol: «
Unicode: U+00AB
HTML entity: «
Category: Punctuation

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About the left-pointing double angle quotation mark symbol

Commonly known as a guillemet, this punctuation mark serves as the left-pointing double angle quotation mark within the Latin 1 Supplement block. It functions primarily as an opening delimiter for speech or citations in various typographic traditions. While it resembles a double less-than sign, it is a distinct typographical character designed to align with text height and weight.

Practical applications for this symbol are found mostly in non-English European typography, such as French, Spanish, and Italian, where it replaces standard curly quotation marks to enclose dialogue. Outside of formal prose, the character frequently appears in computer programming as a bitwise shift operator or within various markup languages. It is also used in certain mathematical contexts to denote subgroups or as a specialized bracket in linguistics and technical notation.