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Caret vs Prime

Caret
2038
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Prime
2032
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Property Comparison

Property ‸ 2038 ′ 2032
Name Caret Prime
Category Punctuation Punctuation
Block General Punctuation General Punctuation
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Punctuation (Po) Other Punctuation (Po)
Bidirectional ON ET

Encoding Comparison

Format 2038 2032
Unicode U+2038 U+2032
HTML Decimal ‸ ′
HTML Hex ‸ ′
CSS \2038 \2032
JavaScript \u{2038} \u{2032}
Python \u2038 \u2032
UTF-8 e2 80 b8 e2 80 b2

How to Distinguish

Both Caret and Prime 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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