Arabic Letter Yeh vs Arabic Letter Alef Maksura

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.

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Arabic Letter Yeh

U+064A
ى

Arabic Letter Alef Maksura

U+0649

Property Comparison

Property Arabic Letter Yeh Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
Codepoint U+064A U+0649
Decimal 1610 1609
HTML Entity ي ى
HTML Decimal ي ى
HTML Hex ي ى
UTF-8 D9 8A D9 89
UTF-16 06 4A 06 49
UTF-32 0000064A 00000649
CSS Escape \64A \649
JS Escape \u064A \u0649
Python Escape \u064A \u0649
URL Encoded %D9%8A %D9%89
Category Other Letter (Lo) Other Letter (Lo)
Block Arabic Arabic
Script Arabic Arabic
Bidi Class AL AL
Unicode Version 1.1 1.1
Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.