What is the difference between Syriac Oblique Line Above and Combining Acute Accent?

Syriac Oblique Line Above is U+0747 in the Syriac block. Combining Acute Accent is U+0301 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 Syriac Oblique Line Above?

The HTML entity for Syriac Oblique Line Above (U+0747) is ݇.

What is the HTML entity for Combining Acute Accent?

The HTML entity for Combining Acute Accent (U+0301) is ́.

Are Syriac Oblique Line Above and Combining Acute Accent the same Unicode character?

No. Syriac Oblique Line Above is U+0747 (decimal 1863) and Combining Acute Accent is U+0301 (decimal 769). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Syriac Oblique Line Above and Combining Acute Accent?

Syriac Oblique Line Above (U+0747) encodes as DD 87 in UTF-8. Combining Acute Accent (U+0301) encodes as CC 81 in UTF-8.

Syriac Oblique Line Above vs Combining Acute Accent

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.

Syriac Oblique Line Above

U+0747

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Combining Acute Accent

U+0301

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Property Comparison

Property	Syriac Oblique Line Above	Combining Acute Accent
Codepoint	`U+0747`	`U+0301`
Decimal	`1863`	`769`
HTML Entity	`݇`	`́`
HTML Decimal	`݇`	`́`
HTML Hex	`݇`	`́`
UTF-8	`DD 87`	`CC 81`
UTF-16	`07 47`	`03 01`
UTF-32	`00000747`	`00000301`
CSS Escape	`\747`	`\301`
JS Escape	`\u0747`	`\u0301`
Python Escape	`\u0747`	`\u0301`
URL Encoded	`%DD%87`	`%CC%81`
Category	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`
Block	`Syriac`	`Combining Diacritical Marks`
Script	`Syriac`	`Inherited`
Bidi Class	`NSM`	`NSM`
Unicode Version	`3.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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