Arabic Maddah Above vs Combining Tilde
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.
Property Comparison
| Property | Arabic Maddah Above | Combining Tilde |
|---|---|---|
| Codepoint |
U+0653
|
U+0303
|
| Decimal |
1619
|
771
|
| HTML Entity |
ٓ
|
̃
|
| HTML Decimal |
ٓ
|
̃
|
| HTML Hex |
ٓ
|
̃
|
| UTF-8 |
D9 93
|
CC 83
|
| UTF-16 |
06 53
|
03 03
|
| UTF-32 |
00000653
|
00000303
|
| CSS Escape |
\653
|
\303
|
| JS Escape |
\u0653
|
\u0303
|
| Python Escape |
\u0653
|
\u0303
|
| URL Encoded |
%D9%93
|
%CC%83
|
| Category |
Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)
|
Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)
|
| Block |
Arabic
|
Combining Diacritical Marks
|
| Script |
Inherited
|
Inherited
|
| Bidi Class |
NSM
|
NSM
|
| Unicode Version |
3.0
|
1.1
|
Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.
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