What is the difference between Right Wiggly Fence and Vertical Zigzag Line?

Right Wiggly Fence is U+29D9 in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block. Vertical Zigzag Line is U+299A in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Right Wiggly Fence?

The HTML entity for Right Wiggly Fence (U+29D9) is ⧙.

What is the HTML entity for Vertical Zigzag Line?

The HTML entity for Vertical Zigzag Line (U+299A) is ⦚.

Are Right Wiggly Fence and Vertical Zigzag Line the same Unicode character?

No. Right Wiggly Fence is U+29D9 (decimal 10713) and Vertical Zigzag Line is U+299A (decimal 10650). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Right Wiggly Fence and Vertical Zigzag Line?

Right Wiggly Fence (U+29D9) encodes as E2 A7 99 in UTF-8. Vertical Zigzag Line (U+299A) encodes as E2 A6 9A in UTF-8.

Right Wiggly Fence vs Vertical Zigzag Line

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.

⧙

Right Wiggly Fence

U+29D9

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⦚

Vertical Zigzag Line

U+299A

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Property Comparison

Property	Right Wiggly Fence	Vertical Zigzag Line
Codepoint	`U+29D9`	`U+299A`
Decimal	`10713`	`10650`
HTML Entity	`⧙`	`⦚`
HTML Decimal	`⧙`	`⦚`
HTML Hex	`⧙`	`⦚`
UTF-8	`E2 A7 99`	`E2 A6 9A`
UTF-16	`29 D9`	`29 9A`
UTF-32	`000029D9`	`0000299A`
CSS Escape	`\29D9`	`\299A`
JS Escape	`\u29D9`	`\u299A`
Python Escape	`\u29D9`	`\u299A`
URL Encoded	`%E2%A7%99`	`%E2%A6%9A`
Category	`Close Punctuation (Pe)`	`Math Symbol (Sm)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B`	`Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`3.2`	`3.2`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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