What is the difference between Squared Four Dot Punctuation and Proportion?

Squared Four Dot Punctuation is U+2E2C in the Supplemental Punctuation block. Proportion is U+2237 in the Mathematical Operators block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Squared Four Dot Punctuation?

The HTML entity for Squared Four Dot Punctuation (U+2E2C) is ⸬.

What is the HTML entity for Proportion?

The HTML entity for Proportion (U+2237) is ∷.

Are Squared Four Dot Punctuation and Proportion the same Unicode character?

No. Squared Four Dot Punctuation is U+2E2C (decimal 11820) and Proportion is U+2237 (decimal 8759). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Squared Four Dot Punctuation and Proportion?

Squared Four Dot Punctuation (U+2E2C) encodes as E2 B8 AC in UTF-8. Proportion (U+2237) encodes as E2 88 B7 in UTF-8.

Squared Four Dot Punctuation vs Proportion

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 Four Dot Punctuation

U+2E2C

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∷

Proportion

U+2237

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Property Comparison

Property	Squared Four Dot Punctuation	Proportion
Codepoint	`U+2E2C`	`U+2237`
Decimal	`11820`	`8759`
HTML Entity	`⸬`	`∷`
HTML Decimal	`⸬`	`∷`
HTML Hex	`⸬`	`∷`
UTF-8	`E2 B8 AC`	`E2 88 B7`
UTF-16	`2E 2C`	`22 37`
UTF-32	`00002E2C`	`00002237`
CSS Escape	`\2E2C`	`\2237`
JS Escape	`\u2E2C`	`\u2237`
Python Escape	`\u2E2C`	`\u2237`
URL Encoded	`%E2%B8%AC`	`%E2%88%B7`
Category	`Other Punctuation (Po)`	`Math Symbol (Sm)`
Block	`Supplemental Punctuation`	`Mathematical Operators`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`5.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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