Left Parenthesis Lower Hook vs Smile

⎝

Left Parenthesis Lower Hook

239D

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⌣

Smile

2323

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Property Comparison

Property	⎝ 239D	⌣ 2323
Name	Left Parenthesis Lower Hook	Smile
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	239D	2323
Unicode	U+239D	U+2323
HTML Decimal	⎝	⌣
HTML Hex	⎝	⌣
CSS	\239D	\2323
JavaScript	\u{239D}	\u{2323}
Python	\u239d	\u2323
UTF-8	e2 8e 9d	e2 8c a3

How to Distinguish

Both Left Parenthesis Lower Hook and Smile 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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