What is the difference between Arabic Mathematical Initial Sad and Arabic Letter Sad?

Arabic Mathematical Initial Sad is U+1EE31 in the Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols block. Arabic Letter Sad is U+0635 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 Initial Sad?

The HTML entity for Arabic Mathematical Initial Sad (U+1EE31) is 𞸱.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Sad?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Sad (U+0635) is ص.

Are Arabic Mathematical Initial Sad and Arabic Letter Sad the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Mathematical Initial Sad is U+1EE31 (decimal 126513) and Arabic Letter Sad is U+0635 (decimal 1589). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Mathematical Initial Sad (U+1EE31) encodes as F0 9E B8 B1 in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Sad (U+0635) encodes as D8 B5 in UTF-8.

Arabic Mathematical Initial Sad vs Arabic Letter Sad

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.

𞸱

Arabic Mathematical Initial Sad

U+1EE31

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Arabic Letter Sad

U+0635

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Mathematical Initial Sad	Arabic Letter Sad
Codepoint	`U+1EE31`	`U+0635`
Decimal	`126513`	`1589`
HTML Entity	`𞸱`	`ص`
HTML Decimal	`𞸱`	`ص`
HTML Hex	`𞸱`	`ص`
UTF-8	`F0 9E B8 B1`	`D8 B5`
UTF-16	`D8 3B DE 31`	`06 35`
UTF-32	`0001EE31`	`00000635`
CSS Escape	`\1EE31`	`\635`
JS Escape	`\uD83B\uDE31`	`\u0635`
Python Escape	`\U0001EE31`	`\u0635`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9E%B8%B1`	`%D8%B5`
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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