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Technical information

Symbol	»
Name	Right-pointing double angle quotation mark
Unicode number	U+00BB
Category	Latin-1 Supplement 2. Latin-1 punctuation and symbols

Description

The Unicode character » or U+00BB is known as the "Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark". It belongs to the "Latin-1 Supplement" block, which includes various characters used in Western European languages. This character falls under the "Punctuation, Initial quote (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage)" category. Visually, it is made up of two angle brackets or chevrons pointing to the right. The Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark is primarily used as a closing quotation mark in languages that use pointed brackets for quotation, including French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Catalan, and Portuguese. It is also used as a guillemet in typesetting. The specific usage of the Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark can depend on the particular conventions of a language or country, but it generally serves to indicate the end of a quoted section of text.

Encoding

HTML Entity	»
HTML Entity (hex)	»
HTML Entity (named)	»
URL Escape Code	%C2%BB
UTF-8 (hex)	0xC2 0xBB
UTF-8 (binary)	1100001010111011
UTF-16	0x00BB
UTF-32	0x000000BB

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u00BB"
CSS Code	\00BB
JavaScript	"\u00BB"
Perl	\x{00BB}
Python 2	u"\u00BB"
Python 3	\u00BB
Ruby	\u{00BB}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this » in sentence and in bold like this » and in italic like this ».

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HTML Forms and Input

input

disabled input

input-group

select

button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#187;</span>

span {
    content: "\00BB";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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"Segoe UI"

sans-serif

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Segoe UI Symbol

system-ui

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Ubuntu

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