Dagger vs Double Dagger
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Property Comparison
| Property | † 2020 | ‡ 2021 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Dagger | Double Dagger |
| Category | Punctuation | Punctuation |
| Block | General Punctuation | General Punctuation |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Punctuation (Po) | Other Punctuation (Po) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2020 | U+2021 |
| HTML Decimal | † | ‡ |
| HTML Hex | † | ‡ |
| CSS | \2020 | \2021 |
| JavaScript | \u{2020} | \u{2021} |
| Python | \u2020 | \u2021 |
| UTF-8 | e2 80 a0 | e2 80 a1 |
How to Distinguish
Both Dagger and Double Dagger 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.