‹
Left Single Angle Quote
- Unicode
- U+2039
- Category
- Punctuation
- HTML Entity
- ‹
- CSS
- \2039
The left single angle quote (‹), often called a single guillemet, is a punctuation mark primarily used in typography to indicate a quotation within a quotation. While standard in many European languages for formatting dialogue, web designers frequently repurpose it as a sleek back arrow for pagination and breadcrumb navigation menus.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+0139
- macOS
- Option+Shift+3
- Linux
- Compose + . + <
- HTML
- ‹ or ‹
In Programming
Web developers frequently use the left single angle quote in UI design to represent 'previous' buttons or back arrows in pagination. It is purely presentational and should not be confused with the standard less-than sign (<) used for code comparison operators.
Tags
European quotation mark
French quotation
UI arrow
angle bracket
angular quote
back arrow
breadcrumb arrow
chevron
guillemet left
less than symbol
navigation arrow
pagination previous
punctuation
quotation
single guillemet