Less-Than Sign <

U+003C

Symbol Meaning

Less-Than Sign is generally employed to show that one number (expression, variable) is less than another. This mathematical operator is one of the inequality signs. Mathematics sees inequality as a statement about the relative size of two objects (one object is smaller than or not greater than the other), or that two objects are not equal (negation of equality). Unicode also offers a More-Than Sign, which is located in Basic Latin since version 1.0.0 in 1991 года.

The symbol “Less-Than Sign” is included in the “ASCII mathematical operators” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

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Unicode Name	Less-Than Sign
Unicode Number
Entity	<
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Basic Latin
Unicode Subblock	ASCII mathematical operators
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Alt Code	Alt 60

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
bmg	003E
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	003C
Simple case change	003C
Math	+
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	3C	60	60	00111100
UTF-16BE	00 3C	0 60	60	00000000 00111100
UTF-16LE	3C 00	60 0	15360	00111100 00000000
UTF-32BE	00 00 00 3C	0 0 0 60	60	00000000 00000000 00000000 00111100
UTF-32LE	3C 00 00 00	60 0 0 0	1006632960	00111100 00000000 00000000 00000000