Greater-Than Sign >
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.
| Unicode Name | Greater-Than Sign |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | > |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin |
| Unicode Subblock | ASCII mathematical operators |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
| 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 |