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Downwards Arrow vs Left Right Open-Headed Arrow

Downwards Arrow
2193
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Left Right Open-Headed Arrow
21FF
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Property Comparison

Property ↓ 2193 ⇿ 21FF
Name Downwards Arrow Left Right Open-Headed Arrow
Category Arrows Arrows
Block Arrows Arrows
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 2193 21FF
Unicode U+2193 U+21FF
HTML Decimal ↓ ⇿
HTML Hex ↓ ⇿
CSS \2193 \21FF
JavaScript \u{2193} \u{21FF}
Python \u2193 \u21ff
UTF-8 e2 86 93 e2 87 bf

How to Distinguish

Both Downwards Arrow and Left Right Open-Headed Arrow belong to the Arrows category and the Arrows 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.

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