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Left Guillemet symbol

Type :left_guillemet: · Punctuation

What « is for

Opens a quotation in French, Russian, Spanish and several other languages. French sets a thin space inside the marks, so it reads as « comme ceci ». Getting the direction right matters: some languages point them inward, others outward.

How to type «

The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With Emoji Anywhere installed you can skip all of them and type :left_guillemet: in any text field instead, which is the same on every platform.

macOS

Option + Backslash

Windows

Alt + 0171

Hold Alt and type the digits on the keypad.

Shortcodes

:left_guillemet:

On the web

HTML «

Unicode U+00AB

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