Greater-Than Sign >

U+003E

Symbol Meaning

Greater-Than Sign is a mathematical sign that represents an isosceles triangle without a base. The vertex points to the right, indicating the smaller value, while the two arms point to the left, indicating the larger value. It's similar to the Less-Than Sign but it points in the opposite direction.

Other Unicode symbols related to Greater-Than include Greater-Than or Equal To ≥ ⩾ , Much Greater-Than ≫ , and so on. They can be found in the mathematical operators block.

This sign has been a part of Unicode Basic Latin block since version 1.0.0 in 1991.

The symbol “Greater-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	Greater-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 62

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

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	3E	62	62	00111110
UTF-16BE	00 3E	0 62	62	00000000 00111110
UTF-16LE	3E 00	62 0	15872	00111110 00000000
UTF-32BE	00 00 00 3E	0 0 0 62	62	00000000 00000000 00000000 00111110
UTF-32LE	3E 00 00 00	62 0 0 0	1040187392	00111110 00000000 00000000 00000000