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

Arabic Mathematical Looped Zah is U+1EE9A in the Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols block. Arabic Letter Zah is U+0638 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 Zah?

The HTML entity for Arabic Mathematical Looped Zah (U+1EE9A) is 𞺚.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Zah?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Zah (U+0638) is ظ.

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

No. Arabic Mathematical Looped Zah is U+1EE9A (decimal 126618) and Arabic Letter Zah is U+0638 (decimal 1592). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Mathematical Looped Zah (U+1EE9A) encodes as F0 9E BA 9A in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Zah (U+0638) encodes as D8 B8 in UTF-8.

Arabic Mathematical Looped Zah vs Arabic Letter Zah

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.

𞺚

Arabic Mathematical Looped Zah

U+1EE9A

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Arabic Letter Zah

U+0638

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Mathematical Looped Zah	Arabic Letter Zah
Codepoint	`U+1EE9A`	`U+0638`
Decimal	`126618`	`1592`
HTML Entity	`𞺚`	`ظ`
HTML Decimal	`𞺚`	`ظ`
HTML Hex	`𞺚`	`ظ`
UTF-8	`F0 9E BA 9A`	`D8 B8`
UTF-16	`D8 3B DE 9A`	`06 38`
UTF-32	`0001EE9A`	`00000638`
CSS Escape	`\1EE9A`	`\638`
JS Escape	`\uD83B\uDE9A`	`\u0638`
Python Escape	`\U0001EE9A`	`\u0638`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9E%BA%9A`	`%D8%B8`
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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