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Downwards Arrow vs Horizontal Black Octagon

Downwards Arrow
2193
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Horizontal Black Octagon
2BC3
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Property Comparison

Property ↓ 2193 ⯃ 2BC3
Name Downwards Arrow Horizontal Black Octagon
Category Arrows Arrows
Block Arrows Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Other Symbol (So)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 2193 2BC3
Unicode U+2193 U+2BC3
HTML Decimal ↓ ⯃
HTML Hex ↓ ⯃
CSS \2193 \2BC3
JavaScript \u{2193} \u{2BC3}
Python \u2193 \u2bc3
UTF-8 e2 86 93 e2 af 83

How to Distinguish

Both Downwards Arrow and Horizontal Black Octagon 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.

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