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

Heavy Right-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament is U+276F in the Dingbats block. Greater-than Sign is U+003E 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 Right-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament?

The HTML entity for Heavy Right-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament (U+276F) is ❯.

What is the HTML entity for Greater-than Sign?

The HTML entity for Greater-than Sign (U+003E) is >.

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

No. Heavy Right-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament is U+276F (decimal 10095) and Greater-than Sign is U+003E (decimal 62). They are separate codepoints.

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

Heavy Right-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament (U+276F) encodes as E2 9D AF in UTF-8. Greater-than Sign (U+003E) encodes as 3E in UTF-8.

Heavy Right-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament vs Greater-than Sign

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

❯

Heavy Right-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament

U+276F

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Greater-than Sign

U+003E

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Property Comparison

Property	Heavy Right-pointing Angle Quotation Mark Ornament	Greater-than Sign
Codepoint	`U+276F`	`U+003E`
Decimal	`10095`	`62`
HTML Entity	`❯`	`>`
HTML Decimal	`❯`	`>`
HTML Hex	`❯`	`>`
UTF-8	`E2 9D AF`	`3E`
UTF-16	`27 6F`	`00 3E`
UTF-32	`0000276F`	`0000003E`
CSS Escape	`\276F`	`\3E`
JS Escape	`\u276F`	`\u003E`
Python Escape	`\u276F`	`\u003E`
URL Encoded	`%E2%9D%AF`	`%3E`
Category	`Close Punctuation (Pe)`	`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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