What is the difference between Arabic Rounded High Stop With Filled Centre and Combining Dot Above?

Arabic Rounded High Stop With Filled Centre is U+06EC in the Arabic block. Combining Dot Above is U+0307 in the Combining Diacritical Marks block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Rounded High Stop With Filled Centre?

The HTML entity for Arabic Rounded High Stop With Filled Centre (U+06EC) is ۬.

What is the HTML entity for Combining Dot Above?

The HTML entity for Combining Dot Above (U+0307) is ̇.

Are Arabic Rounded High Stop With Filled Centre and Combining Dot Above the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Rounded High Stop With Filled Centre is U+06EC (decimal 1772) and Combining Dot Above is U+0307 (decimal 775). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Arabic Rounded High Stop With Filled Centre and Combining Dot Above?

Arabic Rounded High Stop With Filled Centre (U+06EC) encodes as DB AC in UTF-8. Combining Dot Above (U+0307) encodes as CC 87 in UTF-8.

Arabic Rounded High Stop With Filled Centre vs Combining Dot Above

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.

Arabic Rounded High Stop With Filled Centre

U+06EC

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Combining Dot Above

U+0307

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Rounded High Stop With Filled Centre	Combining Dot Above
Codepoint	`U+06EC`	`U+0307`
Decimal	`1772`	`775`
HTML Entity	`۬`	`̇`
HTML Decimal	`۬`	`̇`
HTML Hex	`۬`	`̇`
UTF-8	`DB AC`	`CC 87`
UTF-16	`06 EC`	`03 07`
UTF-32	`000006EC`	`00000307`
CSS Escape	`\6EC`	`\307`
JS Escape	`\u06EC`	`\u0307`
Python Escape	`\u06EC`	`\u0307`
URL Encoded	`%DB%AC`	`%CC%87`
Category	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`
Block	`Arabic`	`Combining Diacritical Marks`
Script	`Arabic`	`Inherited`
Bidi Class	`NSM`	`NSM`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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