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Downwards Arrow vs Leftwards Open-Headed Arrow

Downwards Arrow
2193
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Leftwards Open-Headed Arrow
21FD
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Property Comparison

Property ↓ 2193 ⇽ 21FD
Name Downwards Arrow Leftwards 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 21FD
Unicode U+2193 U+21FD
HTML Decimal ↓ ⇽
HTML Hex ↓ ⇽
CSS \2193 \21FD
JavaScript \u{2193} \u{21FD}
Python \u2193 \u21fd
UTF-8 e2 86 93 e2 87 bd

How to Distinguish

Both Downwards Arrow and Leftwards 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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