What is the difference between Arabic Mathematical Beh and Arabic Letter Beh?

Arabic Mathematical Beh is U+1EE01 in the Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols block. Arabic Letter Beh is U+0628 in the Arabic block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Mathematical Beh?

The HTML entity for Arabic Mathematical Beh (U+1EE01) is 𞸁.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Beh?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Beh (U+0628) is ب.

Are Arabic Mathematical Beh and Arabic Letter Beh the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Mathematical Beh is U+1EE01 (decimal 126465) and Arabic Letter Beh is U+0628 (decimal 1576). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Arabic Mathematical Beh and Arabic Letter Beh?

Arabic Mathematical Beh (U+1EE01) encodes as F0 9E B8 81 in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Beh (U+0628) encodes as D8 A8 in UTF-8.

Arabic Mathematical Beh vs Arabic Letter Beh

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.

𞸁

Arabic Mathematical Beh

U+1EE01

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Arabic Letter Beh

U+0628

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Mathematical Beh	Arabic Letter Beh
Codepoint	`U+1EE01`	`U+0628`
Decimal	`126465`	`1576`
HTML Entity	`𞸁`	`ب`
HTML Decimal	`𞸁`	`ب`
HTML Hex	`𞸁`	`ب`
UTF-8	`F0 9E B8 81`	`D8 A8`
UTF-16	`D8 3B DE 01`	`06 28`
UTF-32	`0001EE01`	`00000628`
CSS Escape	`\1EE01`	`\628`
JS Escape	`\uD83B\uDE01`	`\u0628`
Python Escape	`\U0001EE01`	`\u0628`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9E%B8%81`	`%D8%A8`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols`	`Arabic`
Script	`Arabic`	`Arabic`
Bidi Class	`AL`	`AL`
Unicode Version	`6.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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