U+2276 "" Less-than or Greater-Than Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+2276 "" Less-than or Greater-Than is a mathematical symbol that represents a relationship of inequality, indicating that one value is either less than or greater than another, without specifying which direction the inequality holds. It is often used in contexts where both possibilities are considered valid, such as in approximations, comparisons with error margins, or in logical statements where the exact order is ambiguous or inconsequential. The character belongs to the Mathematical Operators block and is a bidirectional symbol, rendered distinctly from its mirror image, "≷," which denotes greater-than or less-than in the opposite order.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2276
Name
Less-than or Greater-Than
Unicode 1.0 Name
Less than or Greater Than

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
≶
HTML Hex Encoding
≶
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x89 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2276
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002276
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2276