» is the Unicode character RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK, code point U+00BB (decimal 187) in the Latin-1 Supplement block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write », and in UTF-8 it is the 2 bytes C2 BB.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+00BB |
| Decimal | 187 |
| UTF-8 bytes | C2 BB |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 00BB |
| UTF-32 | 000000BB |
| HTML decimal | » |
| HTML hex | » |
| HTML named | » |
| CSS | \BB |
| JavaScript | \u00BB |
| JSON | \u00BB |
| Python | \u00BB |
| Python by name | \N{RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK} |
| Java, C# | \u00BB |
| Rust, Swift | \u{BB} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u00BB |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %C2%BB |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK |
| Code point | U+00BB (decimal 187) |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement (U+0080–U+00FF) |
| General category | Pf: Final quote |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | Yes |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in Latin-1 Supplement
- ³ U+00B3 Superscript Three
- ´ U+00B4 Acute Accent
- µ U+00B5 Micro Sign
- ¶ U+00B6 Pilcrow Sign
- · U+00B7 Middle Dot
- ¸ U+00B8 Cedilla
- ¹ U+00B9 Superscript One
- º U+00BA Masculine Ordinal Indicator
- ¼ U+00BC Vulgar Fraction One Quarter
- ½ U+00BD Vulgar Fraction One Half
- ¾ U+00BE Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters
- ¿ U+00BF Inverted Question Mark
- À U+00C0 Latin Capital Letter A With Grave
- Á U+00C1 Latin Capital Letter A With Acute
- Â U+00C2 Latin Capital Letter A With Circumflex
- Ã U+00C3 Latin Capital Letter A With Tilde
All 128 characters: Latin-1 Supplement.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for »?
- Use the named entity », or » (decimal) or » (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+00BB?
- C2 BB (hex), 2 bytes. In a URL it is %C2%BB.
- How do I write U+00BB in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u00BB. Python: \u00BB.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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