Arabic Subscript Alef vs Combining Vertical Line Below
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 Subscript Alef | Combining Vertical Line Below |
|---|---|---|
| Codepoint |
U+0656
|
U+0329
|
| Decimal |
1622
|
809
|
| HTML Entity |
ٖ
|
̩
|
| HTML Decimal |
ٖ
|
̩
|
| HTML Hex |
ٖ
|
̩
|
| UTF-8 |
D9 96
|
CC A9
|
| UTF-16 |
06 56
|
03 29
|
| UTF-32 |
00000656
|
00000329
|
| CSS Escape |
\656
|
\329
|
| JS Escape |
\u0656
|
\u0329
|
| Python Escape |
\u0656
|
\u0329
|
| URL Encoded |
%D9%96
|
%CC%A9
|
| Category |
Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)
|
Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)
|
| Block |
Arabic
|
Combining Diacritical Marks
|
| Script |
Arabic
|
Inherited
|
| Bidi Class |
NSM
|
NSM
|
| Unicode Version |
4.0
|
1.1
|
Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.
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