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Equals Sign And Slanted Parallel vs Plus-Minus Sign

Equals Sign And Slanted Parallel
29E3
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Plus-Minus Sign
00B1
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VS

Property Comparison

Property ⧣ 29E3 ± 00B1
Name Equals Sign And Slanted Parallel Plus-Minus Sign
Category Math Symbols Math Symbols
Block Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B Latin-1 Supplement
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ET

Encoding Comparison

Format 29E3 00B1
Unicode U+29E3 U+00B1
HTML Decimal ⧣ ±
HTML Hex ⧣ ±
CSS \29E3 \00B1
JavaScript \u{29E3} \u{B1}
Python \u29e3 \u00b1
UTF-8 e2 a7 a3 c2 b1

How to Distinguish

Both Equals Sign And Slanted Parallel and Plus-Minus Sign are in the Math Symbols 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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