Less-Than Sign
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 60 on the numeric keypad to insert less-than sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+60
- HTML entity
- <
- Unicode
- U+003C
About this symbol
The signs < and > for less than and greater than were introduced by the English mathematician Thomas Harriot, in a book published in 1631, ten years after his death.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LESS-THAN SIGN
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII mathematical operators
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Paired with 003E for ASCII-based angle bracket markup conventions
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.