Left Right Open-Headed Arrow vs Leftwards Arrow With Tail
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Property Comparison
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 21FF | 21A2 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+21FF | U+21A2 |
| HTML Decimal | ⇿ | ↢ |
| HTML Hex | ⇿ | ↢ |
| CSS | \21FF | \21A2 |
| JavaScript | \u{21FF} | \u{21A2} |
| Python | \u21ff | \u21a2 |
| UTF-8 | e2 87 bf | e2 86 a2 |
How to Distinguish
Both Left Right Open-Headed Arrow and Leftwards Arrow With Tail 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.