ASCII Character >

Greater than (or close angled bracket)

The greater-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 right, >, has been found in documents dated as far back as the 1560s. In mathematical writing, the greater-than sign is typically placed between two values being compared and signifies that the first number is greater than the second number. The less-than sign and greater-than sign always "point" to the smaller number. Since the development of computer programming languages, the greater-than sign and the less-than sign have been repurposed for a range of uses and operations. The 'greater-than sign' > is an original ASCII character (hex 3E, decimal 62).

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ASCII Code for `>`

These are the code points for greater than (or close angled bracket) in various character sets

Character Sets	Decimal	Hex
ASCII	62	3E

Unicode for `>`

The character for greater than (or close angled bracket) is mapped in Unicode as U+003E

UTF-8 (binary)
Unicode	U+003E
Unicode Decimal	62
Unicode Escape	\u003e
UTF-8 (hex)	0x3E
UTF-8 (binary)	00111110
00111110
UTF-16	0x003E
UTF-32	0x0000003E

HTML Entities for `>`

The following HTML entities can be used to represent the greater than (or close angled bracket) in HTML

HTML Number	>
HTML Hex	>
HTML Entity	> &GT;

Related characters

Symbol	Name
*	Asterisk
+	Plus
/	Slash or divide
<	Less than (or open angled bracket)
=	Equals
×	Multiplication sign
÷	Division sign

Encoding

Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers

URL Escape Code	%3E
Quoted-printable	=3E

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u003E"
CSS Code	\003E
JavaScript	"\u003E"
Perl	\x{003E}
Python 2	u"\u003E"
Python 3	\u003E
Ruby	\u{003E}

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