Less-than With Circle Inside

U+2A79

About Less-than With Circle Inside

Less-than With Circle Inside is the Unicode character ⩹ at codepoint U+2A79 in the Supplemental Mathematical Operators block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Less-than With Circle Inside

To use the Less-than With Circle Inside symbol (⩹) in HTML, insert the entity ⩹ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⩹ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2A79';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2A79' evaluates to ⩹. In Python source, write '\u2A79'.

The character encodes to E2 A9 B9 as UTF-8 bytes and 2A79 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 10873.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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