Erase To The Left vs Hourglass
VS
Property Comparison
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 232B | 231B |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+232B | U+231B |
| HTML Decimal | ⌫ | ⌛ |
| HTML Hex | ⌫ | ⌛ |
| CSS | \232B | \231B |
| JavaScript | \u{232B} | \u{231B} |
| Python | \u232b | \u231b |
| UTF-8 | e2 8c ab | e2 8c 9b |
How to Distinguish
Both Erase To The Left and Hourglass belong to the Technical category and the Miscellaneous Technical 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.