Downwards Arrow vs Left Barb Up Right Barb Up Harpoon
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Property Comparison
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2193 | 294E |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2193 | U+294E |
| HTML Decimal | ↓ | ⥎ |
| HTML Hex | ↓ | ⥎ |
| CSS | \2193 | \294E |
| JavaScript | \u{2193} | \u{294E} |
| Python | \u2193 | \u294e |
| UTF-8 | e2 86 93 | e2 a5 8e |
How to Distinguish
Both Downwards Arrow and Left Barb Up Right Barb Up Harpoon 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.