Anchor vs White Star
VS
Property Comparison
| Property | ⚓ 2693 | ☆ 2606 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Anchor | White Star |
| Category | Stars & Asterisks | Stars & Asterisks |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Symbol (So) | Other Symbol (So) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2693 | 2606 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2693 | U+2606 |
| HTML Decimal | ⚓ | ☆ |
| HTML Hex | ⚓ | ☆ |
| CSS | \2693 | \2606 |
| JavaScript | \u{2693} | \u{2606} |
| Python | \u2693 | \u2606 |
| UTF-8 | e2 9a 93 | e2 98 86 |
How to Distinguish
Both Anchor and White Star belong to the Stars & Asterisks category and the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.