How do I type the › single right-pointing angle quotation mark symbol?

On Windows, type 203A and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 203a. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.

What is the code for ›?

Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark is U+203A, written in HTML as &rsaquo;. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.

What kind of character is ›?

Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark is filed under Final quote in the General Punctuation block, and was introduced in Unicode 1.1. This is a final quotation mark. Its partner varies by language, so the same character can open a quote in one locale and close it in another.

U+203A · Final quote

HTML entity

&rsaquo;

Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark Symbol ›

› is single right-pointing angle quotation mark, U+203A. Unicode also records it as “right pointing single guillemet”. It was added in Unicode 1.1, and Unicode files it under Final quote.

Also known as

right pointing single guillemet

Unicode 1.0 called this character right pointing single guillemet. The standard renamed it later, but documents, fonts and font-editing tools from that era still use the old name.

What Unicode says about ›

usually closing, sometimes opening

— annotation from the Unicode Standard, NamesList.txt

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+203A`
HTML hex	`›`
HTML decimal	`›`
CSS	`\203A`
JavaScript	`\u{203A}`
Python	`\U0000203A`
Java / C#	`\u203A`
Rust	`\u{203a}`
Swift	`\u{203A}`
PHP	`\u{203A}`
URL encoded	`%E2%80%BA`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 80 BA`
UTF-16 bytes	`203A`
Base64	`4oC6`
Decimal	`8250`
HTML entity	`&rsaquo;`
Category	Final quote (Pf)
Introduced	Unicode 1.1

Will › survive being pasted?

Normalisation. Yes. › is unchanged by NFKC, so it survives normalising systems intact.
Legacy encodings. › is Unicode-only — it has no Latin-1 equivalent, so a system stuck on an 8-bit encoding cannot represent it.
Size. 3 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.

Unicode cross-references

The standard points readers of › at these characters — usually because they look alike, or because one is the correct choice where the other is often used by mistake.

Other quotation characters

Unicode names 14 characters ending in “quotation”. They differ by direction, weight or decoration rather than by meaning.

Nearby in General Punctuation

The typographic marks that word processors quietly substitute for their ASCII lookalikes — real quotation marks, en and em dashes, the ellipsis. It also holds the invisible characters: zero-width spaces, joiners and directional marks that do work without drawing anything.

All 71 characters in General Punctuation →

How to type ›

Windows	Type `203A` then press `Alt`+`X`
macOS	Press `Ctrl`+`Cmd`+`Space`, then search for “single right-pointing angle quotation mark”
Linux	Press `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`U`, type `203a`, press `Enter`
HTML	`&rsaquo;`

About Unicode’s Final quote category

This is a final quotation mark. Its partner varies by language, so the same character can open a quote in one locale and close it in another.

Frequently asked questions

How do I type the › single right-pointing angle quotation mark symbol?: On Windows, type 203A and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 203a. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
What is the code for ›?: Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark is U+203A, written in HTML as &rsaquo;. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
What kind of character is ›?: Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark is filed under Final quote in the General Punctuation block, and was introduced in Unicode 1.1. This is a final quotation mark. Its partner varies by language, so the same character can open a quote in one locale and close it in another.