U+22D9 "⋙" Very Much Greater-Than Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+22D9 "⋙" Very Much Greater-Than is a mathematical symbol composed of two identical greater than signs stacked vertically, indicating that one value is substantially larger than another rather than just marginally so. It is part of the Mathematical Operators block and is typically used in advanced mathematics, logic, or computer science to denote a relationship of significant magnitude difference, such as in inequalities like x ⋙ y to emphasize that x is orders of magnitude greater than y. This symbol complements its inverse, the Very Much Less-Than character U+22D8, and is distinct from the standard greater than sign by conveying a stronger comparative emphasis.

General Properties

Code Point U+22D9
Version Added 1.1
Name Very Much Greater-Than
Unicode 1.0 Name Very Much Greater Than
Block Mathematical Operators
General Category Math Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral
Mirrored Yes
Mirrored Character "⋘" U+22D8 Very Much Less-Than

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⋙
HTML Hex Encoding ⋙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x8B 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x22D9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000022D9
C/C++/Java Escape \u22d9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Pattern Syntax Yes
Math Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other