Leftwards Arrow vs Leftwards Harpoon With Barb Up Above Long Dash
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Property Comparison
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2190 | 296A |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2190 | U+296A |
| HTML Decimal | ← | ⥪ |
| HTML Hex | ← | ⥪ |
| CSS | \2190 | \296A |
| JavaScript | \u{2190} | \u{296A} |
| Python | \u2190 | \u296a |
| UTF-8 | e2 86 90 | e2 a5 aa |
How to Distinguish
Both Leftwards Arrow and Leftwards Harpoon With Barb Up Above Long Dash are in the Arrows category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.