U+226E NOT LESS-THAN

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Decimal / Nº
8814
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a canonical composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+226E, officially named NOT LESS-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 NOT LESS 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 a canonical 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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8814 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 89 AE Copied!
UTF-16 22 6E Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 22 6E Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%89%AE Copied!
HTML hex reference ≮ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'226E' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u226E Copied!
C and C++ \u226e Copied!
C# \u226e Copied!
CSS \00226E Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8814) Copied!
Go \u226e Copied!
JavaScript \u226E Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{226e} Copied!
JSON \u226E Copied!
Java \u226E Copied!
Lua \u{226E} Copied!
Matlab char(8814) Copied!
Perl \x{226E} Copied!
PHP \u{226e} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\226E' Copied!
PowerShell `u{226E} Copied!
Python \u226e Copied!
Ruby \u{226e} Copied!
Rust \u{226e} Copied!