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Downwards Arrow vs Leftwards Arrow-Tail

Downwards Arrow
2193
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Leftwards Arrow-Tail
2919
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Property Comparison

Property ↓ 2193 ⤙ 2919
Name Downwards Arrow Leftwards Arrow-Tail
Category Arrows Arrows
Block Arrows Supplemental Arrows-B
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 2193 2919
Unicode U+2193 U+2919
HTML Decimal ↓ ⤙
HTML Hex ↓ ⤙
CSS \2193 \2919
JavaScript \u{2193} \u{2919}
Python \u2193 \u2919
UTF-8 e2 86 93 e2 a4 99

How to Distinguish

Both Downwards Arrow and Leftwards Arrow-Tail 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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