Double Right Arc Less-Than Bracket vs Left White Parenthesis
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Property Comparison
| Property | ⦖ 2996 | ⦅ 2985 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Double Right Arc Less-Than Bracket | Left White Parenthesis |
| Category | Math Symbols | Math Symbols |
| Block | Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B | Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Close Punctuation (Pe) | Open Punctuation (Ps) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2996 | 2985 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2996 | U+2985 |
| HTML Decimal | ⦖ | ⦅ |
| HTML Hex | ⦖ | ⦅ |
| CSS | \2996 | \2985 |
| JavaScript | \u{2996} | \u{2985} |
| Python | \u2996 | \u2985 |
| UTF-8 | e2 a6 96 | e2 a6 85 |
How to Distinguish
Both Double Right Arc Less-Than Bracket and Left White Parenthesis belong to the Math Symbols category and the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B 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.