Very Much Less-than

U+22D8
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ⋘
Hex ⋘

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+22D8
Decimal
8920
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Math Symbol (Sm)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
Mirrored
Yes — glyph is mirrored in RTL context
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Math

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

<<< U+003C U+003C U+003C

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Very Much Less-than.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
&#8920;
HTML Hex
&#x22D8;
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 8B 98
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
22 D8
UTF-32 Hex
000022D8
CSS Escape
\22D8
JavaScript Escape
\u22D8
Python Escape
\u22D8
URL Encoded
%E2%8B%98
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