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U+003C · LESS-THAN SIGN

Less-Than Sign

  • CodepointU+003C
  • NameLESS-THAN SIGN
  • Decimal60
  • BlockBasic Latin (U+0000–U+007F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySm — Math Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthNa — Narrow
  • MirroredYes
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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-83C1 byte
UTF-16003C1 code unit
UTF-320000003C4 bytes
HTML named&LT;named character reference
HTML named&lt;named character reference
HTML decimal&#60;
HTML hex&#x3C;
CSS\3Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u003C
JSON\u003C
Python\u003C
Python\N{LESS-THAN SIGN}by name
Java / C#\u003C
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3C}
Go\u003C
Ruby\u003C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(60)
URL-encoded%3Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

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Characters built on <

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Nearby in Basic Latin

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