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Left Parenthesis Lower Hook vs Right Parenthesis Upper Hook

Left Parenthesis Lower Hook
239D
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Right Parenthesis Upper Hook
239E
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Property Comparison

Property ⎝ 239D ⎞ 239E
Name Left Parenthesis Lower Hook Right 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 239E
Unicode U+239D U+239E
HTML Decimal ⎝ ⎞
HTML Hex ⎝ ⎞
CSS \239D \239E
JavaScript \u{239D} \u{239E}
Python \u239d \u239e
UTF-8 e2 8e 9d e2 8e 9e

How to Distinguish

Both Left Parenthesis Lower Hook and Right 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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