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Quotation Marks
«

Left Guillemet

U+00AB

An opening guillemet, an angled quotation mark used in French and several other European languages.

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Character
«
Unicode codepoint
U+00AB
HTML named entity
«
HTML decimal entity
«
HTML hex entity
«
CSS escape
\00AB
JavaScript escape
\u00AB
Windows Alt code
0171

Meaning and usage

It marks the start of a quotation in languages such as French, Russian, and Spanish, similar to how curly quotes are used in English.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the HTML entity for the opening guillemet?
Use « or «.
What is the Windows Alt code for «?
Hold Alt and type 0171 on the numeric keypad.