Unicode Character 'LESS-THAN SIGN' (U+003C) |
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| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | LESS-THAN SIGN |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| Category | Symbol, Math [Sm] |
| Combine | 0 |
| BIDI | Other Neutrals [ON] |
| Mirror | Y |
| Index entries | LESS-THAN SIGN |
| Comments | paired with U+003E for ASCII-based angle bracket markup conventions |
| See Also | modifier letter left arrowhead U+02C2 single left-pointing angle quotation mark U+2039 left-pointing angle bracket U+2329 mathematical left angle bracket U+27E8 left angle bracket U+3008 |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | < |
| HTML Entity (hex) | < |
| HTML Entity (named) | < |
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +3C Alt 060 Alt 60 |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x3C (3c) |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00111100 |
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x003C (003c) |
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 60 |
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x0000003C (3C) |
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 60 |
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u003C" |
| Python source code | u"\u003C" |
| More... | |
| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() | < |
| string.toLowerCase() | < |
| Character.UnicodeBlock | BASIC_LATIN |
| Character.charCount() | 1 |
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13] |
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 |
| Character.getType() | 25 |
| Character.isDefined() | Yes |
| Character.isDigit() | No |
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | No |
| Character.isISOControl() | No |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | No |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() | No |
| Character.isLetter() | No |
| Character.isLetterOrDigit() | No |
| Character.isLowerCase() | No |
| Character.isMirrored() | Yes |
| Character.isSpaceChar() | No |
| Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() | No |
| Character.isTitleCase() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No |
| Character.isUpperCase() | No |
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes |
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |