Leftwards Arrow vs Leftwards Arrow With Double Vertical Stroke
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Property Comparison
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2190 | 21FA |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2190 | U+21FA |
| HTML Decimal | ← | ⇺ |
| HTML Hex | ← | ⇺ |
| CSS | \2190 | \21FA |
| JavaScript | \u{2190} | \u{21FA} |
| Python | \u2190 | \u21fa |
| UTF-8 | e2 86 90 | e2 87 ba |
How to Distinguish
Both Leftwards Arrow and Leftwards Arrow With Double Vertical Stroke 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.