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

Arabic Mathematical Looped Zain is U+1EE86 in the Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols block. Arabic Letter Zain is U+0632 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 Zain?

The HTML entity for Arabic Mathematical Looped Zain (U+1EE86) is 𞺆.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Zain?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Zain (U+0632) is ز.

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

No. Arabic Mathematical Looped Zain is U+1EE86 (decimal 126598) and Arabic Letter Zain is U+0632 (decimal 1586). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Mathematical Looped Zain (U+1EE86) encodes as F0 9E BA 86 in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Zain (U+0632) encodes as D8 B2 in UTF-8.

Arabic Mathematical Looped Zain vs Arabic Letter Zain

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.

𞺆

Arabic Mathematical Looped Zain

U+1EE86

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Arabic Letter Zain

U+0632

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Mathematical Looped Zain	Arabic Letter Zain
Codepoint	`U+1EE86`	`U+0632`
Decimal	`126598`	`1586`
HTML Entity	`𞺆`	`ز`
HTML Decimal	`𞺆`	`ز`
HTML Hex	`𞺆`	`ز`
UTF-8	`F0 9E BA 86`	`D8 B2`
UTF-16	`D8 3B DE 86`	`06 32`
UTF-32	`0001EE86`	`00000632`
CSS Escape	`\1EE86`	`\632`
JS Escape	`\uD83B\uDE86`	`\u0632`
Python Escape	`\U0001EE86`	`\u0632`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9E%BA%86`	`%D8%B2`
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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