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Left Parenthesis Lower Hook vs Left Square Bracket Extension

Left Parenthesis Lower Hook
239D
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Left Square Bracket Extension
23A2
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Property Comparison

Property ⎝ 239D ⎢ 23A2
Name Left Parenthesis Lower Hook Left Square Bracket Extension
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 23A2
Unicode U+239D U+23A2
HTML Decimal ⎝ ⎢
HTML Hex ⎝ ⎢
CSS \239D \23A2
JavaScript \u{239D} \u{23A2}
Python \u239d \u23a2
UTF-8 e2 8e 9d e2 8e a2

How to Distinguish

Both Left Parenthesis Lower Hook and Left Square Bracket Extension 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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