Left Square Bracket With Quill vs Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically
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Property Comparison
| Property | ⁅ 2045 | ⁑ 2051 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Left Square Bracket With Quill | Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically |
| Category | Punctuation | Punctuation |
| Block | General Punctuation | General Punctuation |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Open Punctuation (Ps) | Other Punctuation (Po) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2045 | 2051 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2045 | U+2051 |
| HTML Decimal | ⁅ | ⁑ |
| HTML Hex | ⁅ | ⁑ |
| CSS | \2045 | \2051 |
| JavaScript | \u{2045} | \u{2051} |
| Python | \u2045 | \u2051 |
| UTF-8 | e2 81 85 | e2 81 91 |
How to Distinguish
Both Left Square Bracket With Quill and Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically belong to the Punctuation category and the General Punctuation 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.