What is the difference between Arabic Mathematical Dotless Beh and Arabic Letter Alef Maksura?

Arabic Mathematical Dotless Beh is U+1EE1C in the Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols block. Arabic Letter Alef Maksura is U+0649 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 Dotless Beh?

The HTML entity for Arabic Mathematical Dotless Beh (U+1EE1C) is 𞸜.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Alef Maksura?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Alef Maksura (U+0649) is ى.

Are Arabic Mathematical Dotless Beh and Arabic Letter Alef Maksura the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Mathematical Dotless Beh is U+1EE1C (decimal 126492) and Arabic Letter Alef Maksura is U+0649 (decimal 1609). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Mathematical Dotless Beh (U+1EE1C) encodes as F0 9E B8 9C in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Alef Maksura (U+0649) encodes as D9 89 in UTF-8.

Arabic Mathematical Dotless Beh vs Arabic Letter Alef Maksura

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.

𞸜

Arabic Mathematical Dotless Beh

U+1EE1C

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Arabic Letter Alef Maksura

U+0649

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Mathematical Dotless Beh	Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
Codepoint	`U+1EE1C`	`U+0649`
Decimal	`126492`	`1609`
HTML Entity	`𞸜`	`ى`
HTML Decimal	`𞸜`	`ى`
HTML Hex	`𞸜`	`ى`
UTF-8	`F0 9E B8 9C`	`D9 89`
UTF-16	`D8 3B DE 1C`	`06 49`
UTF-32	`0001EE1C`	`00000649`
CSS Escape	`\1EE1C`	`\649`
JS Escape	`\uD83B\uDE1C`	`\u0649`
Python Escape	`\U0001EE1C`	`\u0649`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9E%B8%9C`	`%D9%89`
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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