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Caret vs Zero Width Non-Joiner

Caret
2038
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Zero Width Non-Joiner
200C
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Property Comparison

Property ‸ 2038 ‌ 200C
Name Caret Zero Width Non-Joiner
Category Punctuation Punctuation
Block General Punctuation General Punctuation
Script Zyyy Zinh
General Category Other Punctuation (Po) Format (Cf)
Bidirectional ON BN

Encoding Comparison

Format 2038 200C
Unicode U+2038 U+200C
HTML Decimal ‸ ‌
HTML Hex ‸ ‌
CSS \2038 \200C
JavaScript \u{2038} \u{200C}
Python \u2038 \u200c
UTF-8 e2 80 b8 e2 80 8c

How to Distinguish

Both Caret and Zero Width Non-Joiner 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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