Greater-Than Sign
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 62 on the numeric keypad to insert greater-than sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+62
- HTML entity
- >
- Unicode
- U+003E
About this symbol
The greater-than sign comes from Thomas Harriot’s Artis Analyticae Praxis, published in 1631 after his death. In email and online forums a > at the start of a line marks a quotation from an earlier message.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREATER-THAN SIGN
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII mathematical operators
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.