U+2277 "≷" Greater-than or Less-Than Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+2277 "≷" Greater-than or Less-Than is a mathematical typographic symbol that represents a relationship of inequality where one entity is simultaneously either greater than or less than another, typically used to denote a result that could fall on either side of a comparison, such as in expressions like "x ≷ y" meaning "x is either greater than or less than y." It is the opposite counterpart of U+2276 "≶" and is most commonly employed in advanced mathematical contexts, particularly in number theory, logic, and certain engineering fields, to express that two values are not equal but their relative magnitude is unspecified. While not as widely used as the standard relational operators, it provides concise notation for cases where the direction of inequality is either irrelevant or unknown, and it is supported across modern digital fonts and text rendering systems that cover the Mathematical Operators block of Unicode.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
≷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
≷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0x89 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x2277 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00002277 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u2277 |
Unicode Properties