Much Less-Than ≪
≪
U+226A
Symbol Meaning
Much Less-Than. Mathematical Operators.
The symbol “Much Less-Than” is included in the “Relations” subblock of the “Mathematical Operators” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Much Less-Than |
| Unicode Number | |
| Entity | ≪ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Mathematical Operators |
| Unicode Subblock | Relations |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| bmg | 226B |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 226A |
| Simple case change | 226A |
| Math | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 89 AA | 226 137 170 | 14846378 | 11100010 10001001 10101010 |
| UTF-16BE | 22 6A | 34 106 | 8810 | 00100010 01101010 |
| UTF-16LE | 6A 22 | 106 34 | 27170 | 01101010 00100010 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 22 6A | 0 0 34 106 | 8810 | 00000000 00000000 00100010 01101010 |
| UTF-32LE | 6A 22 00 00 | 106 34 0 0 | 1780613120 | 01101010 00100010 00000000 00000000 |
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