Left Right Open-Headed Arrow vs Rightwards Arrow

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Left Right Open-Headed Arrow

21FF

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Rightwards Arrow

2192

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Property Comparison

Property	⇿ 21FF	→ 2192
Name	Left Right Open-Headed Arrow	Rightwards Arrow
Category	Arrows	Arrows
Block	Arrows	Arrows
Script	Zyyy	Zyyy
General Category	Math Symbol (Sm)	Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional	ON	ON

Encoding Comparison

Format	21FF	2192
Unicode	U+21FF	U+2192
HTML Decimal	⇿	→
HTML Hex	⇿	→
CSS	\21FF	\2192
JavaScript	\u{21FF}	\u{2192}
Python	\u21ff	\u2192
UTF-8	e2 87 bf	e2 86 92

How to Distinguish

Both Left Right Open-Headed Arrow and Rightwards 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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