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Left Half Black Star vs Leftwards Arrow

Left Half Black Star
2BE8
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Leftwards Arrow
2190
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Property Comparison

Property ⯨ 2BE8 ← 2190
Name Left Half Black Star Leftwards Arrow
Category Arrows Arrows
Block Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows Arrows
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Symbol (So) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 2BE8 2190
Unicode U+2BE8 U+2190
HTML Decimal ⯨ ←
HTML Hex ⯨ ←
CSS \2BE8 \2190
JavaScript \u{2BE8} \u{2190}
Python \u2be8 \u2190
UTF-8 e2 af a8 e2 86 90

How to Distinguish

Both Left Half Black Star and Leftwards Arrow are in the Arrows category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.

Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use charCodeAt() in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.

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