What is the difference between Combining Acute Accent Below and Arabic Kasra?

Combining Acute Accent Below is U+0317 in the Combining Diacritical Marks block. Arabic Kasra is U+0650 in the Arabic block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Combining Acute Accent Below?

The HTML entity for Combining Acute Accent Below (U+0317) is ̗.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Kasra?

The HTML entity for Arabic Kasra (U+0650) is ِ.

Are Combining Acute Accent Below and Arabic Kasra the same Unicode character?

No. Combining Acute Accent Below is U+0317 (decimal 791) and Arabic Kasra is U+0650 (decimal 1616). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Combining Acute Accent Below and Arabic Kasra?

Combining Acute Accent Below (U+0317) encodes as CC 97 in UTF-8. Arabic Kasra (U+0650) encodes as D9 90 in UTF-8.

Combining Acute Accent Below vs Arabic Kasra

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.

Combining Acute Accent Below

U+0317

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Arabic Kasra

U+0650

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Property Comparison

Property	Combining Acute Accent Below	Arabic Kasra
Codepoint	`U+0317`	`U+0650`
Decimal	`791`	`1616`
HTML Entity	`̗`	`ِ`
HTML Decimal	`̗`	`ِ`
HTML Hex	`̗`	`ِ`
UTF-8	`CC 97`	`D9 90`
UTF-16	`03 17`	`06 50`
UTF-32	`00000317`	`00000650`
CSS Escape	`\317`	`\650`
JS Escape	`\u0317`	`\u0650`
Python Escape	`\u0317`	`\u0650`
URL Encoded	`%CC%97`	`%D9%90`
Category	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`
Block	`Combining Diacritical Marks`	`Arabic`
Script	`Inherited`	`Inherited`
Bidi Class	`NSM`	`NSM`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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