What is the difference between Arabic Mathematical Double-struck Lam and Arabic Letter Lam?

Arabic Mathematical Double-struck Lam is U+1EEAB in the Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols block. Arabic Letter Lam is U+0644 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 Double-struck Lam?

The HTML entity for Arabic Mathematical Double-struck Lam (U+1EEAB) is 𞺫.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Lam?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Lam (U+0644) is ل.

Are Arabic Mathematical Double-struck Lam and Arabic Letter Lam the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Mathematical Double-struck Lam is U+1EEAB (decimal 126635) and Arabic Letter Lam is U+0644 (decimal 1604). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Arabic Mathematical Double-struck Lam and Arabic Letter Lam?

Arabic Mathematical Double-struck Lam (U+1EEAB) encodes as F0 9E BA AB in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Lam (U+0644) encodes as D9 84 in UTF-8.

Arabic Mathematical Double-struck Lam vs Arabic Letter Lam

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.

𞺫

Arabic Mathematical Double-struck Lam

U+1EEAB

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Arabic Letter Lam

U+0644

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Mathematical Double-struck Lam	Arabic Letter Lam
Codepoint	`U+1EEAB`	`U+0644`
Decimal	`126635`	`1604`
HTML Entity	`𞺫`	`ل`
HTML Decimal	`𞺫`	`ل`
HTML Hex	`𞺫`	`ل`
UTF-8	`F0 9E BA AB`	`D9 84`
UTF-16	`D8 3B DE AB`	`06 44`
UTF-32	`0001EEAB`	`00000644`
CSS Escape	`\1EEAB`	`\644`
JS Escape	`\uD83B\uDEAB`	`\u0644`
Python Escape	`\U0001EEAB`	`\u0644`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9E%BA%AB`	`%D9%84`
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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