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Left Vertical Box Line vs Vertical Line Extension

Left Vertical Box Line
23B8
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Vertical Line Extension
23D0
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VS

Property Comparison

Property ⎸ 23B8 ⏐ 23D0
Name Left Vertical Box Line Vertical Line Extension
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 23D0
Unicode U+23B8 U+23D0
HTML Decimal ⎸ ⏐
HTML Hex ⎸ ⏐
CSS \23B8 \23D0
JavaScript \u{23B8} \u{23D0}
Python \u23b8 \u23d0
UTF-8 e2 8e b8 e2 8f 90

How to Distinguish

Both Left Vertical Box Line and Vertical Line Extension 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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