What is the difference between Arabic Mathematical Looped Waw and Arabic Letter Waw?

Arabic Mathematical Looped Waw is U+1EE85 in the Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols block. Arabic Letter Waw is U+0648 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 Looped Waw?

The HTML entity for Arabic Mathematical Looped Waw (U+1EE85) is 𞺅.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Waw?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Waw (U+0648) is و.

Are Arabic Mathematical Looped Waw and Arabic Letter Waw the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Mathematical Looped Waw is U+1EE85 (decimal 126597) and Arabic Letter Waw is U+0648 (decimal 1608). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Mathematical Looped Waw (U+1EE85) encodes as F0 9E BA 85 in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Waw (U+0648) encodes as D9 88 in UTF-8.

Arabic Mathematical Looped Waw vs Arabic Letter Waw

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.

𞺅

Arabic Mathematical Looped Waw

U+1EE85

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Arabic Letter Waw

U+0648

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Mathematical Looped Waw	Arabic Letter Waw
Codepoint	`U+1EE85`	`U+0648`
Decimal	`126597`	`1608`
HTML Entity	`𞺅`	`و`
HTML Decimal	`𞺅`	`و`
HTML Hex	`𞺅`	`و`
UTF-8	`F0 9E BA 85`	`D9 88`
UTF-16	`D8 3B DE 85`	`06 48`
UTF-32	`0001EE85`	`00000648`
CSS Escape	`\1EE85`	`\648`
JS Escape	`\uD83B\uDE85`	`\u0648`
Python Escape	`\U0001EE85`	`\u0648`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9E%BA%85`	`%D9%88`
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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