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Left Vertical Box Line vs Metrical Pentaseme

Left Vertical Box Line
23B8
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Metrical Pentaseme
23D9
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Property Comparison

Property ⎸ 23B8 ⏙ 23D9
Name Left Vertical Box Line Metrical Pentaseme
Category Technical Technical
Block Miscellaneous Technical Miscellaneous Technical
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Symbol (So) Other Symbol (So)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 23B8 23D9
Unicode U+23B8 U+23D9
HTML Decimal ⎸ ⏙
HTML Hex ⎸ ⏙
CSS \23B8 \23D9
JavaScript \u{23B8} \u{23D9}
Python \u23b8 \u23d9
UTF-8 e2 8e b8 e2 8f 99

How to Distinguish

Both Left Vertical Box Line and Metrical Pentaseme belong to the Technical category and the Miscellaneous Technical 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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