Modifier Letter Left Arrowhead

U+02C2

About Modifier Letter Left Arrowhead

Modifier Letter Left Arrowhead is the Unicode character ˂ at codepoint U+02C2 in the Spacing Modifier Letters block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Developer Notes

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

How to Use Modifier Letter Left Arrowhead

To use the Modifier Letter Left Arrowhead 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: '\2C2';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u02C2' evaluates to ˂. In Python source, write '\u02C2'.

The character encodes to CB 82 as UTF-8 bytes and 02C2 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 706.

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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