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Character Tie vs Word Joiner

Character Tie
2040
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Word Joiner
2060
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Property Comparison

Property ⁀ 2040 ⁠ 2060
Name Character Tie Word Joiner
Category Punctuation Punctuation
Block General Punctuation General Punctuation
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Connector Punctuation (Pc) Format (Cf)
Bidirectional ON BN

Encoding Comparison

Format 2040 2060
Unicode U+2040 U+2060
HTML Decimal ⁀ ⁠
HTML Hex ⁀ ⁠
CSS \2040 \2060
JavaScript \u{2040} \u{2060}
Python \u2040 \u2060
UTF-8 e2 81 80 e2 81 a0

How to Distinguish

Both Character Tie and Word 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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