Low Brightness Symbol vs White Medium Star
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Property Comparison
| Property | 🔅 1F505 | ⭐ 2B50 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Low Brightness Symbol | White Medium Star |
| Category | Stars & Asterisks | Stars & Asterisks |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Symbol (So) | Other Symbol (So) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 1F505 | 2B50 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F505 | U+2B50 |
| HTML Decimal | 🔅 | ⭐ |
| HTML Hex | 🔅 | ⭐ |
| CSS | \1F505 | \2B50 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F505} | \u{2B50} |
| Python | \U0001f505 | \u2b50 |
| UTF-8 | f0 9f 94 85 | e2 ad 90 |
How to Distinguish
Both Low Brightness Symbol and White Medium Star are in the Stars & Asterisks 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.