Blank Symbol vs Symbol For Carriage Return

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Blank Symbol

2422

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Symbol For Carriage Return

240D

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Property Comparison

Property	␢ 2422	␍ 240D
Name	Blank Symbol	Symbol For Carriage Return
Category	Technical	Technical
Block	Control Pictures	Control Pictures
Script	Zyyy	Zyyy
General Category	Other Symbol (So)	Other Symbol (So)
Bidirectional	ON	ON

Encoding Comparison

Format	2422	240D
Unicode	U+2422	U+240D
HTML Decimal	␢	␍
HTML Hex	␢	␍
CSS	\2422	\240D
JavaScript	\u{2422}	\u{240D}
Python	\u2422	\u240d
UTF-8	e2 90 a2	e2 90 8d

How to Distinguish

Both Blank Symbol and Symbol For Carriage Return belong to the Technical category and the Control Pictures 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.

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