U+FF1C Fullwidth Less-Than Sign
U+FF1C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a wide version of the glyph Less-Than Sign. Accordingly, its width in East Asian Text is fullwidth. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is mirrored into Fullwidth Greater-Than Sign. U+FF1C offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The less-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values. The widely adopted form of two equal-length strokes connecting in an acute angle at the left, <, has been found in documents dated as far back as the 1560s. In mathematical writing, the less-than sign is typically placed between two values being compared and signifies that the first number is less than the second number. Examples of typical usage include 1⁄2 < 1 and −2 < 0.
Since the development of computer programming languages, the less-than sign and the greater-than sign have been repurposed for a range of uses and operations.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65308 |
| UTF-8 | EF BC 9C |
| UTF-16 | FF 1C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FF 1C |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BC%9C |
| HTML hex reference | ＜ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ＜ |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A1 D5 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A1 D5 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 81 83 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A3 BC |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A1 D5 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A1 E3 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A1 E3 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A1 E3 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A3 BC |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A3 BC |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A3 BC |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A3 BC |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 23 3C 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 63 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 63 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 63 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 63 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 63 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 63 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 23 3C 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DA 4C |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 81 83 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 83 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 83 |
| Adobe Glyph List | lessmonospace |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| FULLWIDTH LESS-THAN SIGN | |
| — | |
| Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | |
| Math Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| wide | |
| Less-Than Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Less-Than Sign | |
| Fullwidth Less-Than Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Less-Than Sign | |
| Fullwidth Less-Than Sign | |
| Fullwidth Less-Than Sign | |
| Fullwidth Less-Than Sign | |
| Fullwidth Less-Than Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Less-Than Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Less-Than Sign | |
| No | |
| Less-Than Sign | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Greater-Than Sign | |
| Fullwidth Less-Than Sign | |
| None | |
| fullwidth | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Fullwidth Less-Than Sign | |
| R |