Black Rightwards Arrow vs Leftwards Black Arrow
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Property Comparison
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 27A1 | 2B05 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+27A1 | U+2B05 |
| HTML Decimal | ➡ | ⬅ |
| HTML Hex | ➡ | ⬅ |
| CSS | \27A1 | \2B05 |
| JavaScript | \u{27A1} | \u{2B05} |
| Python | \u27a1 | \u2b05 |
| UTF-8 | e2 9e a1 | e2 ac 85 |
How to Distinguish
Both Black Rightwards Arrow and Leftwards Black Arrow are in the Arrows 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.