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Right Guillemet Double Angle Quotes
The right guillemet (») closes quotations in European typography, completing the elegant framing of quoted material and maintaining the sophisticated visual style of continental publishing traditions.
Technical Details
- ASCII Code
- 187
- HTML Entity
- »
- Hexadecimal
- 0xBB
- Binary
- 10111011
- Octal
- 273
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char symbol = '»'; // ASCII 187HTML/Web
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About the Right Guillemet Double Angle Quotes
Typographic Completion
Provides the essential closing element for European quotation systems, creating balanced visual framing that enhances readability and maintains professional appearance in multilingual documents and publications.
Dialogue Clarity
Essential for clear dialogue attribution in European literature, journalism, and academic writing. The distinctive angle-bracket design eliminates confusion with apostrophes and creates clear boundaries between speakers.
International Standards
Required for authentic formatting in French, Italian, Spanish, German, and other European language publications. Demonstrates adherence to established typographic conventions and cultural sensitivity in global communications.
Editorial Precision
Enables precise control over nested quotations and complex cited material, allowing editors and publishers to maintain clear hierarchies of attribution in scholarly and professional texts.
History of the Right Guillemet Double Angle Quotes
French Typographic Innovation
French printers completed the guillemet system by pairing opening and closing angle brackets, creating the balanced quotation system that became the European standard.
Literary Adoption
European authors and publishers embraced the complete guillemet system for novels, poetry, and dramatic works, establishing it as the mark of sophisticated continental literature.
Newspaper Integration
European newspapers and periodicals standardized closing guillemets for interviews, testimonials, and quoted material, creating consistent journalistic practices across the continent.
International Publishing
Global publishing houses adopted guillemets for European-language editions, ensuring authentic typographic representation in translated works and international publications.
Web Typography
Modern web design and content management systems integrated closing guillemets, enabling authentic European typography in digital publishing and maintaining cultural standards online.
Cultural Impact
The closing guillemet preserved European typographic identity in the digital age, ensuring that centuries of continental publishing traditions could continue to flourish in modern communication platforms.
Usage Examples
French Conversation
ExampleProper French dialogue punctuation with balanced guillemets
Spanish Quotations
ExampleSpanish literary quotation using European punctuation style
Business Communications
ExampleCorporate messaging with professional European typography
Educational Materials
ExampleAcademic definitions and educational content formatting