php function to convert %3c back to html

I have a string that needs to be converted back to html. It's in this format:

%3cli%3e

which should be:

<li>

What php function can I use to convert 开发者_StackOverflow中文版this? Tried html_entity_decode() but that didn't work.

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urldecode()

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Did you try urldecode?