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Double Plus vs Plus-Minus Sign

Double Plus
29FA
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±
Plus-Minus Sign
00B1
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VS

Property Comparison

Property ⧺ 29FA ± 00B1
Name Double Plus Plus-Minus Sign
Category Math Symbols Math Symbols
Block Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B Latin-1 Supplement
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ET

Encoding Comparison

Format 29FA 00B1
Unicode U+29FA U+00B1
HTML Decimal ⧺ ±
HTML Hex ⧺ ±
CSS \29FA \00B1
JavaScript \u{29FA} \u{B1}
Python \u29fa \u00b1
UTF-8 e2 a7 ba c2 b1

How to Distinguish

Both Double Plus 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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