Asterism vs Caret
VS
Property Comparison
| Property | ⁂ 2042 | ‸ 2038 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Asterism | Caret |
| Category | Punctuation | Punctuation |
| Block | General Punctuation | General Punctuation |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) | Other Punctuation (Po) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2042 | 2038 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2042 | U+2038 |
| HTML Decimal | ⁂ | ‸ |
| HTML Hex | ⁂ | ‸ |
| CSS | \2042 | \2038 |
| JavaScript | \u{2042} | \u{2038} |
| Python | \u2042 | \u2038 |
| UTF-8 | e2 81 82 | e2 80 b8 |
How to Distinguish
Both Asterism and Caret belong to the Punctuation category and the General Punctuation 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.