U+E003C "" Tag Less-than Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+E003C "" Tag Less-than Sign is a formatting character classified within the Tags block, specifically used as a component in the Unicode tag mechanism for language and text processing. It does not represent a visible typographic symbol, but rather acts as a coded markup element that can be combined with other tag characters to identify or annotate text segments, primarily in contexts like plain text language tagging or as part of legacy usage from the deprecated "Tag Space" and "Tag Character" sequences. Its function is invisible to the end user in typical rendering, serving as a non graphical identifier rather than a printable glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+E003C |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Tag Less-than Sign |
| Block | Tags |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Boundary Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 󠀼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 󠀼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF3 0xA0 0x80 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xDB40 0xDC3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000E003C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \udb40\udc3c |