What is the difference between Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament and Less-than Sign?

Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament is U+276E in the Dingbats block. Less-than Sign is U+003C in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament?

The HTML entity for Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament (U+276E) is ❮.

What is the HTML entity for Less-than Sign?

The HTML entity for Less-than Sign (U+003C) is <.

Are Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament and Less-than Sign the same Unicode character?

No. Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament is U+276E (decimal 10094) and Less-than Sign is U+003C (decimal 60). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament and Less-than Sign?

Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament (U+276E) encodes as E2 9D AE in UTF-8. Less-than Sign (U+003C) encodes as 3C in UTF-8.

Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament vs Less-than Sign

Q: Are Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament and Less-than Sign the same Unicode character?

No. Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament is U+276E (decimal 10094) and Less-than Sign is U+003C (decimal 60). They are separate codepoints.

Q: What are the UTF-8 encodings of Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament and Less-than Sign?

Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament (U+276E) encodes as E2 9D AE in UTF-8. Less-than Sign (U+003C) encodes as 3C in UTF-8.

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❮

Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament

U+276E

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Less-than Sign

U+003C

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Property Comparison

Property	Heavy Left-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament	Less-than Sign
Codepoint	`U+276E`	`U+003C`
Decimal	`10094`	`60`
HTML Entity	`❮`	`<`
HTML Decimal	`❮`	`<`
HTML Hex	`❮`	`<`
UTF-8	`E2 9D AE`	`3C`
UTF-16	`27 6E`	`00 3C`
UTF-32	`0000276E`	`0000003C`
CSS Escape	`\276E`	`\3C`
JS Escape	`\u276E`	`\u003C`
Python Escape	`\u276E`	`\u003C`
URL Encoded	`%E2%9D%AE`	`%3C`
Category	`Open Punctuation (Ps)`	`Math Symbol (Sm)`
Block	`Dingbats`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`3.2`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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