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Left Right Open-Headed Arrow vs Leftwards Arrow With Tail

Left Right Open-Headed Arrow
21FF
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Leftwards Arrow With Tail
21A2
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Property Comparison

Property ⇿ 21FF ↢ 21A2
Name Left Right Open-Headed Arrow Leftwards Arrow With Tail
Category Arrows Arrows
Block Arrows Arrows
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Other Symbol (So)
Bidirectional ON ON

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.

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