Copyright Sign vs Trade Mark Sign
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Property Comparison
| Property | © 00A9 | ™ 2122 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Copyright Sign | Trade Mark Sign |
| Category | Legal & Copyright | Legal & Copyright |
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement | Letterlike Symbols |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Symbol (So) | Other Symbol (So) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 00A9 | 2122 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+00A9 | U+2122 |
| HTML Decimal | © | ™ |
| HTML Hex | © | ™ |
| CSS | \00A9 | \2122 |
| JavaScript | \u{A9} | \u{2122} |
| Python | \u00a9 | \u2122 |
| UTF-8 | c2 a9 | e2 84 a2 |
How to Distinguish
Both Copyright Sign and Trade Mark Sign are in the Legal & Copyright category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.