U+2343 "⍃" Apl Functional Symbol Quad Less-Than Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2343 "⍃" Apl Functional Symbol Quad Less-Than is a specialized glyph used within the APL programming language, where it represents a specific functional operation combining the notion of a quad, which often denotes input/output or a generic placeholder, with a less-than symbol. In APL's notation, this character typically signifies a relational or structural comparison function, often employed in array-oriented programming to test for or indicate that one value is less than another within a computational context. As part of the larger set of APL functional symbols, it enables concise and expressive code, reflecting the language's design for mathematical and data manipulation tasks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2343 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Apl Functional Symbol Quad Less-Than |
| Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⍃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⍃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x8D 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2343 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002343 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2343 |
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 |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |