What is the difference between Squared Falling Diagonal Slash and Apl Functional Symbol Quad Backslash?

Squared Falling Diagonal Slash is U+29C5 in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block. Apl Functional Symbol Quad Backslash is U+2342 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 Squared Falling Diagonal Slash?

The HTML entity for Squared Falling Diagonal Slash (U+29C5) is ⧅.

What is the HTML entity for Apl Functional Symbol Quad Backslash?

The HTML entity for Apl Functional Symbol Quad Backslash (U+2342) is ⍂.

Are Squared Falling Diagonal Slash and Apl Functional Symbol Quad Backslash the same Unicode character?

No. Squared Falling Diagonal Slash is U+29C5 (decimal 10693) and Apl Functional Symbol Quad Backslash is U+2342 (decimal 9026). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Squared Falling Diagonal Slash and Apl Functional Symbol Quad Backslash?

Squared Falling Diagonal Slash (U+29C5) encodes as E2 A7 85 in UTF-8. Apl Functional Symbol Quad Backslash (U+2342) encodes as E2 8D 82 in UTF-8.

Squared Falling Diagonal Slash vs Apl Functional Symbol Quad Backslash

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.

⧅

Squared Falling Diagonal Slash

U+29C5

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⍂

Apl Functional Symbol Quad Backslash

U+2342

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Property Comparison

Property	Squared Falling Diagonal Slash	Apl Functional Symbol Quad Backslash
Codepoint	`U+29C5`	`U+2342`
Decimal	`10693`	`9026`
HTML Entity	`⧅`	`⍂`
HTML Decimal	`⧅`	`⍂`
HTML Hex	`⧅`	`⍂`
UTF-8	`E2 A7 85`	`E2 8D 82`
UTF-16	`29 C5`	`23 42`
UTF-32	`000029C5`	`00002342`
CSS Escape	`\29C5`	`\2342`
JS Escape	`\u29C5`	`\u2342`
Python Escape	`\u29C5`	`\u2342`
URL Encoded	`%E2%A7%85`	`%E2%8D%82`
Category	`Math Symbol (Sm)`	`Other Symbol (So)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B`	`Miscellaneous Technical`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.2`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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