FORMAT
U+E003C
FORMAT
TAG LESS-THAN SIGN
Zero-width format control character governing layout and script joining.
Category:
Format (Cf)
Block:
Tags
Script:
Common
Age:
Unicode 3.1
Plane:
Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (SSP)
Quick Facts
| Unicode Name |
TAG LESS-THAN SIGN
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|---|---|---|
| Code Point |
U+E003C
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| Decimal Value |
917564
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| General Category | Format (Cf) → | |
| Unicode Block | Tags → | |
| Script | Common → | |
| Unicode Version | Unicode 3.1 → | |
| Unicode Plane |
Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (SSP)
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Byte Encodings
| UTF-8 4 bytes |
F3 A0 80 BC
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|---|---|---|
| UTF-16 Surrogate Pair |
DB40 DC3C
High:
U+DB40 (\uDB40)
Low: U+DC3C (\uDC3C)
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| UTF-32 4 bytes |
000E003C
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| UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
DB 40 DC 3C
LE: 40 DB 3C DC
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| UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order |
BE:
00 0E 00 3C
LE: 3C 00 0E 00
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Developer Code Escapes
| HTML Decimal |
󠀼
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|---|---|---|
| HTML Hexadecimal |
󠀼
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| HTML Named Entity |
None
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| CSS Escape |
\0E003C
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| JavaScript (ES6) |
\u{E003C}
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| JavaScript (UTF-16) |
\uDB40\uDC3C
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| JSON Escape |
\uDB40\uDC3C
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| Python |
\U000E003C
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| PHP |
"\u{E003C}"
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| Java |
"\uDB40\uDC3C"
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| C / C++ |
"\U000E003C"
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| Rust |
'\u{e003c}'
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| URL Percent-Encoded |
%F3%A0%80%BC
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Normalization & Decomposition
| Combining Class |
0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
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|---|---|---|
| Decomposition | None (Canonical / Precomposed Base) | |
| NFC / NFD Forms | Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD). |
Bidirectional Properties
| Bidi Class |
BN — Boundary Neutral
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|---|---|---|
| Bidi Mirrored | No |
Font Specimen & Rendering
Non-Printable Character Notice
Code point U+E003C represents a FORMAT (General Category Cf). It does not produce a visible standalone glyph in standard font engines and is intended for programmatic, syntactic, layout, or lexical operations.