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Left Parenthesis Extension vs Left Vertical Box Line

Left Parenthesis Extension
239C
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Left Vertical Box Line
23B8
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Property Comparison

Property ⎜ 239C ⎸ 23B8
Name Left Parenthesis Extension Left Vertical Box Line
Category Technical Technical
Block Miscellaneous Technical Miscellaneous Technical
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Other Symbol (So)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 239C 23B8
Unicode U+239C U+23B8
HTML Decimal ⎜ ⎸
HTML Hex ⎜ ⎸
CSS \239C \23B8
JavaScript \u{239C} \u{23B8}
Python \u239c \u23b8
UTF-8 e2 8e 9c e2 8e b8

How to Distinguish

Both Left Parenthesis Extension 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.

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