Leftwards Arrow With Tail vs Leftwards Open-Headed Arrow
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Encoding Comparison
| Format | 21A2 | 21FD |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+21A2 | U+21FD |
| HTML Decimal | ↢ | ⇽ |
| HTML Hex | ↢ | ⇽ |
| CSS | \21A2 | \21FD |
| JavaScript | \u{21A2} | \u{21FD} |
| Python | \u21a2 | \u21fd |
| UTF-8 | e2 86 a2 | e2 87 bd |
How to Distinguish
Both Leftwards Arrow With Tail and Leftwards Open-Headed Arrow 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.