Left Guillemet symbol
Type :left_guillemet: · Punctuation
Unicode name Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark · Latin-1 Supplement block · added in Unicode 1.1, 1993
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
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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
JavaScript '\u{00AB}'
CSS "\00AB"
Python '\u00AB'
URL %C2%AB
More from punctuation
:inverted_question: “ :left_double_quote: ” :right_double_quote: ‘ :left_single_quote: ’ :right_single_quote_apostrophe: „ :low_double_quote: » :right_guillemet: ′ :prime_minutes_feet: ″ :double_prime_seconds_inches: ※ :reference_mark: ⁂ :asterism: 「 :left_corner_bracket: Every symbol and kaomoji is in the full gallery .
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