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Downwards Arrow vs Leftwards Paired Arrows

Downwards Arrow
2193
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Leftwards Paired Arrows
21C7
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Property Comparison

Property ↓ 2193 ⇇ 21C7
Name Downwards Arrow Leftwards Paired Arrows
Category Arrows Arrows
Block Arrows Arrows
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Other Symbol (So)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 2193 21C7
Unicode U+2193 U+21C7
HTML Decimal ↓ ⇇
HTML Hex ↓ ⇇
CSS \2193 \21C7
JavaScript \u{2193} \u{21C7}
Python \u2193 \u21c7
UTF-8 e2 86 93 e2 87 87

How to Distinguish

Both Downwards Arrow and Leftwards Paired Arrows 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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