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Four Dot Mark vs Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically

Four Dot Mark
205B
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Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically
2051
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Property Comparison

Property ⁛ 205B ⁑ 2051
Name Four Dot Mark Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically
Category Punctuation Punctuation
Block General Punctuation General Punctuation
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Punctuation (Po) Other Punctuation (Po)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 205B 2051
Unicode U+205B U+2051
HTML Decimal ⁛ ⁑
HTML Hex ⁛ ⁑
CSS \205B \2051
JavaScript \u{205B} \u{2051}
Python \u205b \u2051
UTF-8 e2 81 9b e2 81 91

How to Distinguish

Both Four Dot Mark and Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically belong to the Punctuation category and the General Punctuation 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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