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Acute Angle vs Plus-Minus Sign

Acute Angle
299F
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±
Plus-Minus Sign
00B1
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VS

Property Comparison

Property ⦟ 299F ± 00B1
Name Acute Angle Plus-Minus Sign
Category Math Symbols Math Symbols
Block Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B Latin-1 Supplement
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ET

Encoding Comparison

Format 299F 00B1
Unicode U+299F U+00B1
HTML Decimal ⦟ ±
HTML Hex ⦟ ±
CSS \299F \00B1
JavaScript \u{299F} \u{B1}
Python \u299f \u00b1
UTF-8 e2 a6 9f c2 b1

How to Distinguish

Both Acute Angle and Plus-Minus Sign are in the Math Symbols category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.

Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use charCodeAt() in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.

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