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Division Times vs Plus-Minus Sign

Division Times
22C7
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Plus-Minus Sign
00B1
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VS

Property Comparison

Property ⋇ 22C7 ± 00B1
Name Division Times Plus-Minus Sign
Category Math Symbols Math Symbols
Block Mathematical Operators Latin-1 Supplement
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ET

Encoding Comparison

Format 22C7 00B1
Unicode U+22C7 U+00B1
HTML Decimal ⋇ ±
HTML Hex ⋇ ±
CSS \22C7 \00B1
JavaScript \u{22C7} \u{B1}
Python \u22c7 \u00b1
UTF-8 e2 8b 87 c2 b1

How to Distinguish

Both Division Times and Plus-Minus Sign are in the Math Symbols 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.

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