U+22D8 "⋘" Very Much Less-Than Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+22D8 "⋘" Very Much Less-Than is a mathematical symbol used to denote an extreme or significant inequality, indicating that one quantity is far smaller than another, often in contexts like set theory, order theory, or advanced calculus where a standard less-than symbol (U+003C) would be insufficient to express a large disparity in magnitude. It is part of the Mathematical Operators block and is typically rendered as a triple repetition of the less-than sign without spaces, serving as a visual and semantic intensifier of the relationship between two values.
General Properties
Code Point
U+22D8
Name
Very Much Less-Than
Unicode 1.0 Name
Very Much Less Than
Mirrored Character
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
⋘
HTML Hex Encoding
⋘
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x8B 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding
0x22D8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000022D8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u22d8
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common