Can the "<" char be escaped with a backslash in Vim keymaps?

Can the "<" (less-than/left angle bracket) char be escaped with backslash in Vim keymaps? Or to put it otherwise: which characters can be escaped with a backslash in a keymap?

:help mbyte-keymap says:

# The lines after "loadkeymap" are interpreted with 'cpoptions' set to "C".
# This means that continuation lines are not used and a backslash has a special
# meaning in the mappings. Examples: >
#
# " a comment line
# \" x maps " to x
# \\ y maps \ to y

but I seem to remember having used `\<` and it worked. I guess that's what is implied by "Examples"?

The reason I'm asking is that I'm writing something which parses keymaps and turns them into another something which a third something can use to transliterate strings. Currently I'm using `\\(["\\])` to match backslash escapes, but I suspect it isn't enough.

/bpj

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