U+2274 NEITHER LESS-THAN NOR EQUIVALENT TO

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Decimal / Nº
8820
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a canonical composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2274, officially named NEITHER LESS-THAN NOR EQUIVALENT TO, 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 NEITHER LESS THAN NOR EQUIVALENT TO.

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 no designated width 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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8820 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 89 B4 Copied!
UTF-16 22 74 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 22 74 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%89%B4 Copied!
HTML hex reference ≴ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2274' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2274 Copied!
C and C++ \u2274 Copied!
C# \u2274 Copied!
CSS \002274 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8820) Copied!
Go \u2274 Copied!
JavaScript \u2274 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2274} Copied!
JSON \u2274 Copied!
Java \u2274 Copied!
Lua \u{2274} Copied!
Matlab char(8820) Copied!
Perl \x{2274} Copied!
PHP \u{2274} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2274' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2274} Copied!
Python \u2274 Copied!
Ruby \u{2274} Copied!
Rust \u{2274} Copied!