What is the difference between Arabic Tone Two Dots Above and Combining Diaeresis?

Arabic Tone Two Dots Above is U+08EB in the Arabic Extended-A block. Combining Diaeresis is U+0308 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 Tone Two Dots Above?

The HTML entity for Arabic Tone Two Dots Above (U+08EB) is ࣫.

What is the HTML entity for Combining Diaeresis?

The HTML entity for Combining Diaeresis (U+0308) is ̈.

Are Arabic Tone Two Dots Above and Combining Diaeresis the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Tone Two Dots Above is U+08EB (decimal 2283) and Combining Diaeresis is U+0308 (decimal 776). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Arabic Tone Two Dots Above and Combining Diaeresis?

Arabic Tone Two Dots Above (U+08EB) encodes as E0 A3 AB in UTF-8. Combining Diaeresis (U+0308) encodes as CC 88 in UTF-8.

Arabic Tone Two Dots Above vs Combining Diaeresis

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 Tone Two Dots Above

U+08EB

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Combining Diaeresis

U+0308

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Tone Two Dots Above	Combining Diaeresis
Codepoint	`U+08EB`	`U+0308`
Decimal	`2283`	`776`
HTML Entity	`࣫`	`̈`
HTML Decimal	`࣫`	`̈`
HTML Hex	`࣫`	`̈`
UTF-8	`E0 A3 AB`	`CC 88`
UTF-16	`08 EB`	`03 08`
UTF-32	`000008EB`	`00000308`
CSS Escape	`\8EB`	`\308`
JS Escape	`\u08EB`	`\u0308`
Python Escape	`\u08EB`	`\u0308`
URL Encoded	`%E0%A3%AB`	`%CC%88`
Category	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`
Block	`Arabic Extended-A`	`Combining Diacritical Marks`
Script	`Arabic`	`Inherited`
Bidi Class	`NSM`	`NSM`
Unicode Version	`6.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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