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HTML Entity Detail
HTML Entity - Left Angle Quotes (french: Opening Guillemet)
Left Angle Quotes (French: Opening Guillemet) is a quotation marks, guillemets, and quote variants across languages. This HTML entity enables web developers to display this character reliably across all browsers without encoding issues.
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«
Unicode
U+00AB
HTML entity
«
CSS code
\00AB
Usage Examples
Use this HTML entity in typographically correct quotes, especially in multilingual content. Different languages use different quote styles.
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Common Mistakes
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Mistake: Using straight quotes (") instead of curly quotes (“ ”) in prose
Fix: Straight quotes are fine for code but look unprofessional in displayed text. Use “ and ” for opening and closing curly double quotes in English prose.
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Mistake: Using the wrong quote style for the language
Fix: Different languages use different quotation styles: English uses “...”, French uses «...» (guillemets), German uses „...“, Japanese uses 「...」. Use the correct style for your content language.
Left Angle Quotes (french: Opening Guillemet)
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Category: Quotation Marks
| Unicode | U+00AB |
|---|---|
| Hex Code | « |
| HTML Code | « |
| HTML Entity | « |
| CSS Code | \00AB |
| Windows Shortcut | Alt 0171 |
| Mac Shortcut | ⌥Q |
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Last updated: 21 Jun 2026
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