Leftwards Arrow With Tail vs Leftwards Double Arrow With Stroke
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Property Comparison
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 21A2 | 21CD |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+21A2 | U+21CD |
| HTML Decimal | ↢ | ⇍ |
| HTML Hex | ↢ | ⇍ |
| CSS | \21A2 | \21CD |
| JavaScript | \u{21A2} | \u{21CD} |
| Python | \u21a2 | \u21cd |
| UTF-8 | e2 86 a2 | e2 87 8d |
How to Distinguish
Both Leftwards Arrow With Tail and Leftwards Double Arrow With 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.