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Return Symbol vs Symbol For Carriage Return

Return Symbol
23CE
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Symbol For Carriage Return
240D
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Property Comparison

Property ⏎ 23CE ␍ 240D
Name Return Symbol Symbol For Carriage Return
Category Technical Technical
Block Miscellaneous Technical Control Pictures
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Other Symbol (So) Other Symbol (So)
Bidirectional ON ON

Encoding Comparison

Format 23CE 240D
Unicode U+23CE U+240D
HTML Decimal ⏎ ␍
HTML Hex ⏎ ␍
CSS \23CE \240D
JavaScript \u{23CE} \u{240D}
Python \u23ce \u240d
UTF-8 e2 8f 8e e2 90 8d

How to Distinguish

Both Return Symbol and Symbol For Carriage Return are in the Technical 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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