Hourglass vs Return Symbol
VS
Property Comparison
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 231B | 23CE |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+231B | U+23CE |
| HTML Decimal | ⌛ | ⏎ |
| HTML Hex | ⌛ | ⏎ |
| CSS | \231B | \23CE |
| JavaScript | \u{231B} | \u{23CE} |
| Python | \u231b | \u23ce |
| UTF-8 | e2 8c 9b | e2 8f 8e |
How to Distinguish
Both Hourglass and Return Symbol 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.