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Erase To The Left vs Left Parenthesis Extension

Erase To The Left
232B
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Left Parenthesis Extension
239C
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Property Comparison

Property ⌫ 232B ⎜ 239C
Name Erase To The Left Left Parenthesis Extension
Category Technical Technical
Block Miscellaneous Technical Miscellaneous Technical
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Symbol (So) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 232B 239C
Unicode U+232B U+239C
HTML Decimal ⌫ ⎜
HTML Hex ⌫ ⎜
CSS \232B \239C
JavaScript \u{232B} \u{239C}
Python \u232b \u239c
UTF-8 e2 8c ab e2 8e 9c

How to Distinguish

Both Erase To The Left and Left Parenthesis Extension 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.

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