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Left Parenthesis Lower Hook vs Left Parenthesis Upper Hook

Left Parenthesis Lower Hook
239D
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Left Parenthesis Upper Hook
239B
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Property Comparison

Property ⎝ 239D ⎛ 239B
Name Left Parenthesis Lower Hook Left Parenthesis Upper 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 239D 239B
Unicode U+239D U+239B
HTML Decimal ⎝ ⎛
HTML Hex ⎝ ⎛
CSS \239D \239B
JavaScript \u{239D} \u{239B}
Python \u239d \u239b
UTF-8 e2 8e 9d e2 8e 9b

How to Distinguish

Both Left Parenthesis Lower Hook and Left Parenthesis Upper 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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