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Technical information
| Symbol | < | |
| Name | Less-than sign | |
| Unicode number | U+003C | |
| Category | ASCII Table4. ASCII punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character <, or U+003C, is known as the "Less-Than Sign". It falls under the "Basic Latin" block and the "Math Symbol" category in the Unicode standard. This character has a broad range of uses in computing and mathematics. It's often used in mathematical expressions to denote that one value is less than another. In programming and computing, it is typically used in expressions to compare values, and in markup languages like HTML and XML, it serves as an opening tag for elements. Despite its simple design, it is an essential character in many different fields. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | < | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | < | |
| HTML Entity (named) | <⃒ | |
| URL Escape Code | %3C | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x3C | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00111100 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x003C | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000003C |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u003C" | |
| CSS Code | \003C | |
| JavaScript | "\u003C" | |
| Perl | \x{003C} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u003C" | |
| Python 3 | \u003C | |
| Ruby | \u{003C} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this < in sentence and in bold like this < and in italic like this <.
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Font size:
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CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span><</span>
span {
content: "\003C";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana