What is the difference between Left Square Bracket Extension and Cjk Ideograph-4e28?

Left Square Bracket Extension is U+23A2 in the Miscellaneous Technical block. Cjk Ideograph-4e28 is U+4E28 in the CJK Unified Ideographs block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Left Square Bracket Extension?

The HTML entity for Left Square Bracket Extension (U+23A2) is ⎢.

What is the HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-4e28?

The HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-4e28 (U+4E28) is 丨.

Are Left Square Bracket Extension and Cjk Ideograph-4e28 the same Unicode character?

No. Left Square Bracket Extension is U+23A2 (decimal 9122) and Cjk Ideograph-4e28 is U+4E28 (decimal 20008). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Left Square Bracket Extension and Cjk Ideograph-4e28?

Left Square Bracket Extension (U+23A2) encodes as E2 8E A2 in UTF-8. Cjk Ideograph-4e28 (U+4E28) encodes as E4 B8 A8 in UTF-8.

Left Square Bracket Extension vs Cjk Ideograph-4e28

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.

⎢

Left Square Bracket Extension

U+23A2

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丨

Cjk Ideograph-4e28

U+4E28

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Property Comparison

Property	Left Square Bracket Extension	Cjk Ideograph-4e28
Codepoint	`U+23A2`	`U+4E28`
Decimal	`9122`	`20008`
HTML Entity	`⎢`	`丨`
HTML Decimal	`⎢`	`丨`
HTML Hex	`⎢`	`丨`
UTF-8	`E2 8E A2`	`E4 B8 A8`
UTF-16	`23 A2`	`4E 28`
UTF-32	`000023A2`	`00004E28`
CSS Escape	`\23A2`	`\4E28`
JS Escape	`\u23A2`	`\u4E28`
Python Escape	`\u23A2`	`\u4E28`
URL Encoded	`%E2%8E%A2`	`%E4%B8%A8`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Technical`	`CJK Unified Ideographs`
Script	`Common`	`Han`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.2`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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