Hourglass vs Left Vertical Box Line
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Encoding Comparison
| Format | 231B | 23B8 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+231B | U+23B8 |
| HTML Decimal | ⌛ | ⎸ |
| HTML Hex | ⌛ | ⎸ |
| CSS | \231B | \23B8 |
| JavaScript | \u{231B} | \u{23B8} |
| Python | \u231b | \u23b8 |
| UTF-8 | e2 8c 9b | e2 8e b8 |
How to Distinguish
Both Hourglass and Left Vertical Box Line 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.