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Left Vertical Box Line vs Top Parenthesis

Left Vertical Box Line
23B8
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Top Parenthesis
23DC
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VS

Property Comparison

Property ⎸ 23B8 ⏜ 23DC
Name Left Vertical Box Line Top Parenthesis
Category Technical Technical
Block Miscellaneous Technical Miscellaneous Technical
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Symbol (So) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 23B8 23DC
Unicode U+23B8 U+23DC
HTML Decimal ⎸ ⏜
HTML Hex ⎸ ⏜
CSS \23B8 \23DC
JavaScript \u{23B8} \u{23DC}
Python \u23b8 \u23dc
UTF-8 e2 8e b8 e2 8f 9c

How to Distinguish

Both Left Vertical Box Line and Top Parenthesis 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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