U+003C LESS-THAN SIGN

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Decimal / Nº
60
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
narrow
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+003C, officially named LESS-THAN SIGN, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the ASCII block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Math Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has narrow in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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60 Copied!
UTF-8 3C Copied!
UTF-16 00 3C Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 00 3C Copied!
URL-Quoted %3C Copied!
HTML hex reference &#x003C; Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'003C' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u003C Copied!
C and C++ \u003c Copied!
C# \u003c Copied!
CSS \00003C Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(60) Copied!
Go \u003c Copied!
JavaScript \u003C Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{003c} Copied!
JSON \u003C Copied!
Java \u003C Copied!
Lua \u{003C} Copied!
Matlab char(60) Copied!
Perl \x{003C} Copied!
PHP \u{003c} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\003C' Copied!
PowerShell `u{003C} Copied!
Python \u003c Copied!
Ruby \u{003c} Copied!
Rust \u{003c} Copied!