Caret vs Five Dot Punctuation
VS
Property Comparison
| Property | ‸ 2038 | ⁙ 2059 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Caret | Five Dot Punctuation |
| 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 | 2038 | 2059 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2038 | U+2059 |
| HTML Decimal | ‸ | ⁙ |
| HTML Hex | ‸ | ⁙ |
| CSS | \2038 | \2059 |
| JavaScript | \u{2038} | \u{2059} |
| Python | \u2038 | \u2059 |
| UTF-8 | e2 80 b8 | e2 81 99 |
How to Distinguish
Both Caret and Five Dot Punctuation 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.