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Leftwards Arrow vs Rightwards Black Circled White Arrow

Leftwards Arrow
2190
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Rightwards Black Circled White Arrow
2B8A
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Property Comparison

Property ← 2190 ⮊ 2B8A
Name Leftwards Arrow Rightwards Black Circled White Arrow
Category Arrows Arrows
Block Arrows Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Math Symbol (Sm) Other Symbol (So)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 2190 2B8A
Unicode U+2190 U+2B8A
HTML Decimal ← ⮊
HTML Hex ← ⮊
CSS \2190 \2B8A
JavaScript \u{2190} \u{2B8A}
Python \u2190 \u2b8a
UTF-8 e2 86 90 e2 ae 8a

How to Distinguish

Both Leftwards Arrow and Rightwards Black Circled White Arrow 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.

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