Dotted Square vs Leftwards Arrow
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Property Comparison
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2B1A | 2190 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2B1A | U+2190 |
| HTML Decimal | ⬚ | ← |
| HTML Hex | ⬚ | ← |
| CSS | \2B1A | \2190 |
| JavaScript | \u{2B1A} | \u{2190} |
| Python | \u2b1a | \u2190 |
| UTF-8 | e2 ac 9a | e2 86 90 |
How to Distinguish
Both Dotted Square and Leftwards Arrow are in the Arrows 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.