What is the difference between Dotted Fence and Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah?

Dotted Fence is U+2999 in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block. Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah is U+2D42 in the Tifinagh block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Dotted Fence?

The HTML entity for Dotted Fence (U+2999) is ⦙.

What is the HTML entity for Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah?

The HTML entity for Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah (U+2D42) is ⵂ.

Are Dotted Fence and Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah the same Unicode character?

No. Dotted Fence is U+2999 (decimal 10649) and Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah is U+2D42 (decimal 11586). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Dotted Fence and Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah?

Dotted Fence (U+2999) encodes as E2 A6 99 in UTF-8. Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah (U+2D42) encodes as E2 B5 82 in UTF-8.

Dotted Fence vs Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah

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.

⦙

Dotted Fence

U+2999

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ⵂ

Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah

U+2D42

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Property Comparison

Property	Dotted Fence	Tifinagh Letter Tuareg Yah
Codepoint	`U+2999`	`U+2D42`
Decimal	`10649`	`11586`
HTML Entity	`⦙`	`ⵂ`
HTML Decimal	`⦙`	`ⵂ`
HTML Hex	`⦙`	`ⵂ`
UTF-8	`E2 A6 99`	`E2 B5 82`
UTF-16	`29 99`	`2D 42`
UTF-32	`00002999`	`00002D42`
CSS Escape	`\2999`	`\2D42`
JS Escape	`\u2999`	`\u2D42`
Python Escape	`\u2999`	`\u2D42`
URL Encoded	`%E2%A6%99`	`%E2%B5%82`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B`	`Tifinagh`
Script	`Common`	`Tifinagh`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.2`	`4.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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