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Caret vs Function Application

Caret
2038
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Function Application
2061
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Property Comparison

Property ‸ 2038 ⁡ 2061
Name Caret Function Application
Category Punctuation Punctuation
Block General Punctuation General Punctuation
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Punctuation (Po) Format (Cf)
Bidirectional ON BN

Encoding Comparison

Format 2038 2061
Unicode U+2038 U+2061
HTML Decimal ‸ ⁡
HTML Hex ‸ ⁡
CSS \2038 \2061
JavaScript \u{2038} \u{2061}
Python \u2038 \u2061
UTF-8 e2 80 b8 e2 81 a1

How to Distinguish

Both Caret and Function Application 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.

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