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Downwards Arrow vs Long Leftwards Arrow

Downwards Arrow
2193
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Long Leftwards Arrow
27F5
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Property Comparison

Property ↓ 2193 ⟵ 27F5
Name Downwards Arrow Long Leftwards Arrow
Category Arrows Arrows
Block Arrows Supplemental Arrows-A
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 2193 27F5
Unicode U+2193 U+27F5
HTML Decimal ↓ ⟵
HTML Hex ↓ ⟵
CSS \2193 \27F5
JavaScript \u{2193} \u{27F5}
Python \u2193 \u27f5
UTF-8 e2 86 93 e2 9f b5

How to Distinguish

Both Downwards Arrow and Long Leftwards Arrow 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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