Left Right Open-Headed Arrow vs Left Right Wave Arrow

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Left Right Open-Headed Arrow

21FF

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Left Right Wave Arrow

21AD

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Property Comparison

Property	⇿ 21FF	↭ 21AD
Name	Left Right Open-Headed Arrow	Left Right Wave Arrow
Category	Arrows	Arrows
Block	Arrows	Arrows
Script	Zyyy	Zyyy
General Category	Math Symbol (Sm)	Other Symbol (So)
Bidirectional	ON	ON

Encoding Comparison

Format	21FF	21AD
Unicode	U+21FF	U+21AD
HTML Decimal	⇿	↭
HTML Hex	⇿	↭
CSS	\21FF	\21AD
JavaScript	\u{21FF}	\u{21AD}
Python	\u21ff	\u21ad
UTF-8	e2 87 bf	e2 86 ad

How to Distinguish

Both Left Right Open-Headed Arrow and Left Right Wave Arrow belong to the Arrows category and the Arrows 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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