This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Glyph for U+226BMuch Greater-Than. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+226A forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “much less-than” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: inequality, less-than, mathematics, much.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In mathematics, an inequality is a relation which makes a non-equal comparison between two numbers or other mathematical expressions. It is used most often to compare two numbers on the number line by their size. The main types of inequality are less than (<) and greater than (>).
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
8810
UTF-8
E2 89 AA
UTF-16
22 6A
UTF-32
00 00 22 6A
URL-Quoted
%E2%89%AA
HTML hex reference
≪
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
≪
HTML named entity
≪
HTML named entity
≪
HTML named entity
≪
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
81 E1
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
A1 EC
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
A2 E3
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
A2 E3
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
A2 E3
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
A1 EC
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 36 D9 31
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 22 63 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 22 63 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 22 63 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 22 63 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 22 63 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 22 63 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 21 6C 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
D9 7C
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
81 E1
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
81 E1
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
81 E1
LATEX
\ll
Adobe Glyph List
muchless
digraph
<*
RFC 5137
\u'226A'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u226A
C and C++
\u226A
C#
\u226A
CSS
\00226A
Excel
=UNICHAR(8810)
Go
\u226A
JavaScript
\u226A
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{226a}
JSON
\u226A
Java
\u226A
Lua
\u{226A}
Matlab
char(8810)
Perl
"\x{226A}"
PHP
\u{226a}
PostgreSQL
U&'\226A'
PowerShell
`u{226A}
Python
\u226A
Ruby
\u{226a}
Rust
\u{226a}
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