What does grep -cE ">" myfile.txt do?

I understand how to use grep; however, I am having trouble understanding the function of using ">" in my command?

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The character > on its own doesn't have any special significance in either a basic or an extended regular expression, so both

grep -Ec ">" myfile.txt 

and

grep -c ">" myfile.txt 

count the number of lines in myfile.txt that contain the character >

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