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Left Parenthesis Extension vs Left Parenthesis Lower Hook

Left Parenthesis Extension
239C
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Left Parenthesis Lower Hook
239D
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Property Comparison

Property ⎜ 239C ⎝ 239D
Name Left Parenthesis Extension Left Parenthesis Lower Hook
Category Technical Technical
Block Miscellaneous Technical Miscellaneous Technical
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 239C 239D
Unicode U+239C U+239D
HTML Decimal ⎜ ⎝
HTML Hex ⎜ ⎝
CSS \239C \239D
JavaScript \u{239C} \u{239D}
Python \u239c \u239d
UTF-8 e2 8e 9c e2 8e 9d

How to Distinguish

Both Left Parenthesis Extension and Left Parenthesis Lower Hook 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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