Fullwidth Greater-Than Sign

Fullwidth Greater-Than Sign at U+FF1E is a wide version of the greater-than symbol used where East Asian fullwidth typography is expected. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which provides compatibility characters for text laid out in the grid-like spacing of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems. Its main real-world use is in CJK plain text, forms, subtitles, and legacy data where symbols are aligned to the same visual width as ideographs. A Japanese or Chinese interface may use ＞ as a menu arrow, breadcrumb separator, or quoted-text marker because it occupies a full character cell rather than the narrower ASCII >. It can also appear in stylized social media text, chat, and pasted material converted by input methods that offer fullwidth punctuation. Although it means “greater than” visually, mathematics, programming languages, command lines, and markup generally expect the ordinary ASCII greater-than sign instead; using the fullwidth character there is a common source of failed comparisons, broken syntax, or missed searches.