What is the difference between Arabic Mathematical Stretched Kaf and Arabic Letter Kaf?

Arabic Mathematical Stretched Kaf is U+1EE6A in the Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols block. Arabic Letter Kaf is U+0643 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 Stretched Kaf?

The HTML entity for Arabic Mathematical Stretched Kaf (U+1EE6A) is 𞹪.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Kaf?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Kaf (U+0643) is ك.

Are Arabic Mathematical Stretched Kaf and Arabic Letter Kaf the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Mathematical Stretched Kaf is U+1EE6A (decimal 126570) and Arabic Letter Kaf is U+0643 (decimal 1603). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Mathematical Stretched Kaf (U+1EE6A) encodes as F0 9E B9 AA in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Kaf (U+0643) encodes as D9 83 in UTF-8.

Arabic Mathematical Stretched Kaf vs Arabic Letter Kaf

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.

𞹪

Arabic Mathematical Stretched Kaf

U+1EE6A

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Arabic Letter Kaf

U+0643

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Mathematical Stretched Kaf	Arabic Letter Kaf
Codepoint	`U+1EE6A`	`U+0643`
Decimal	`126570`	`1603`
HTML Entity	`𞹪`	`ك`
HTML Decimal	`𞹪`	`ك`
HTML Hex	`𞹪`	`ك`
UTF-8	`F0 9E B9 AA`	`D9 83`
UTF-16	`D8 3B DE 6A`	`06 43`
UTF-32	`0001EE6A`	`00000643`
CSS Escape	`\1EE6A`	`\643`
JS Escape	`\uD83B\uDE6A`	`\u0643`
Python Escape	`\U0001EE6A`	`\u0643`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9E%B9%AA`	`%D9%83`
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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