U+226B MUCH GREATER-THAN

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Decimal / Nº
8811
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+226B, officially named MUCH GREATER-THAN, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Math Operators block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as MUCH GREATER THAN.

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 ambiguous 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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8811 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 89 AB Copied!
UTF-16 22 6B Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 22 6B Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%89%AB Copied!
HTML hex reference ≫ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'226B' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u226B Copied!
C and C++ \u226b Copied!
C# \u226b Copied!
CSS \00226B Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8811) Copied!
Go \u226b Copied!
JavaScript \u226B Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{226b} Copied!
JSON \u226B Copied!
Java \u226B Copied!
Lua \u{226B} Copied!
Matlab char(8811) Copied!
Perl \x{226B} Copied!
PHP \u{226b} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\226B' Copied!
PowerShell `u{226B} Copied!
Python \u226b Copied!
Ruby \u{226b} Copied!
Rust \u{226b} Copied!