Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0139 on the numeric keypad to insert single left-pointing angle quotation mark.
- Alt code
- Alt+0139
- HTML entity
- ‹
- Unicode
- U+2039
About this symbol
‹ and › are single guillemets, used in French and Swiss writing for a quotation inside a quotation, much as English uses ‘single’ marks inside “double” ones.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
- Also called
- Left pointing single guillemet
- Type
- Opening quotation mark
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Unicode group
- Quotation marks
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Usually opening, sometimes closing
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Punctuation and Typography Marks chart for related characters.