What is the difference between Option Key and Up Arrowhead Between Two Horizontal Bars?

Option Key is U+2325 in the Miscellaneous Technical block. Up Arrowhead Between Two Horizontal Bars is U+2324 in the Miscellaneous Technical block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Option Key?

The HTML entity for Option Key (U+2325) is ⌥.

What is the HTML entity for Up Arrowhead Between Two Horizontal Bars?

The HTML entity for Up Arrowhead Between Two Horizontal Bars (U+2324) is ⌤.

Are Option Key and Up Arrowhead Between Two Horizontal Bars the same Unicode character?

No. Option Key is U+2325 (decimal 8997) and Up Arrowhead Between Two Horizontal Bars is U+2324 (decimal 8996). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Option Key and Up Arrowhead Between Two Horizontal Bars?

Option Key (U+2325) encodes as E2 8C A5 in UTF-8. Up Arrowhead Between Two Horizontal Bars (U+2324) encodes as E2 8C A4 in UTF-8.

Option Key vs Up Arrowhead Between Two Horizontal Bars

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

⌥

Option Key

U+2325

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⌤

Up Arrowhead Between Two Horizontal Bars

U+2324

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Property Comparison

Property	Option Key	Up Arrowhead Between Two Horizontal Bars
Codepoint	`U+2325`	`U+2324`
Decimal	`8997`	`8996`
HTML Entity	`⌥`	`⌤`
HTML Decimal	`⌥`	`⌤`
HTML Hex	`⌥`	`⌤`
UTF-8	`E2 8C A5`	`E2 8C A4`
UTF-16	`23 25`	`23 24`
UTF-32	`00002325`	`00002324`
CSS Escape	`\2325`	`\2324`
JS Escape	`\u2325`	`\u2324`
Python Escape	`\u2325`	`\u2324`
URL Encoded	`%E2%8C%A5`	`%E2%8C%A4`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Symbol (So)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Technical`	`Miscellaneous Technical`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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