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Left Double Angle Quote

Unicode
U+00AB
Category
Punctuation
HTML Entity
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CSS
\00AB
The left double angle quotation mark, commonly known as a guillemet, is a typographic symbol used to indicate speech or quotes in many European languages, including French, Spanish, and Russian. In digital design, it frequently doubles as a UI navigation icon representing a "fast rewind" action or a button to jump to previous pages in pagination menus.

How to Type

Windows
Alt+0171
macOS
Option+\
Linux
Compose + < + <
HTML
&laquo;

In Programming

While mostly treated as standard string text, languages like Raku use guillemets for word quoting and hyperoperators. In frontend web development, it is widely utilized as a visual text character for rendering "previous" pagination links.

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Tags

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