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Blank Symbol vs Return Symbol

Blank Symbol
2422
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Return Symbol
23CE
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Property Comparison

Property ␢ 2422 ⏎ 23CE
Name Blank Symbol Return Symbol
Category Technical Technical
Block Control Pictures Miscellaneous Technical
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Symbol (So) Other Symbol (So)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 2422 23CE
Unicode U+2422 U+23CE
HTML Decimal ␢ ⏎
HTML Hex ␢ ⏎
CSS \2422 \23CE
JavaScript \u{2422} \u{23CE}
Python \u2422 \u23ce
UTF-8 e2 90 a2 e2 8f 8e

How to Distinguish

Both Blank Symbol and Return Symbol are in the Technical 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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