Right Double Angle Bracket

It ends the name of a work in Chinese text. In 《阿Q正传》 (The True Story of Ah Q, a novella by Lu Xun), the book title marks separate the title from the surrounding sentence. The double pair, 双书名号, covers songs, films, documents and artworks as well as books; 》 always needs its opening 《.

Marking titles came with modern punctuation reform. A book-title mark appeared in Chinese punctuation proposals by 1917, and the new scheme received government approval in 1920. The 1951 rules still marked titles with a wavy underline, so the function is older than the bracket shape now standard.

Under the Mainland standard GB/T 15834—2011, 《》 encloses the outer title and the single pair 〈〉 encloses a title nested inside it. Taiwan's 2008 guidance keeps both the wavy-line and bracket forms.

Is 》 the same as >> or »?

No — they are different characters that point the same way. Close a Chinese title with 》 after 《; two greater-than signs or a European guillemet leave the pair mismatched, even where a font makes them look alike.

In Japanese, 《》 (二重山括弧, nijū yamakakko) is a secondary bracket. Dialogue uses 「」 and book titles usually use 『』; some publishers reserve 《》 for emphasis or certain kinds of titles. Read a Japanese 《…》 by the document's own style, not as an automatic book title.