What is the difference between Turned Semicolon and Arabic Semicolon?

Turned Semicolon is U+2E35 in the Supplemental Punctuation block. Arabic Semicolon is U+061B in the Arabic block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Turned Semicolon?

The HTML entity for Turned Semicolon (U+2E35) is ⸵.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Semicolon?

The HTML entity for Arabic Semicolon (U+061B) is ؛.

Are Turned Semicolon and Arabic Semicolon the same Unicode character?

No. Turned Semicolon is U+2E35 (decimal 11829) and Arabic Semicolon is U+061B (decimal 1563). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Turned Semicolon and Arabic Semicolon?

Turned Semicolon (U+2E35) encodes as E2 B8 B5 in UTF-8. Arabic Semicolon (U+061B) encodes as D8 9B in UTF-8.

Turned Semicolon vs Arabic Semicolon

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.

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Turned Semicolon

U+2E35

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Arabic Semicolon

U+061B

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Property Comparison

Property	Turned Semicolon	Arabic Semicolon
Codepoint	`U+2E35`	`U+061B`
Decimal	`11829`	`1563`
HTML Entity	`⸵`	`؛`
HTML Decimal	`⸵`	`؛`
HTML Hex	`⸵`	`؛`
UTF-8	`E2 B8 B5`	`D8 9B`
UTF-16	`2E 35`	`06 1B`
UTF-32	`00002E35`	`0000061B`
CSS Escape	`\2E35`	`\61B`
JS Escape	`\u2E35`	`\u061B`
Python Escape	`\u2E35`	`\u061B`
URL Encoded	`%E2%B8%B5`	`%D8%9B`
Category	`Other Punctuation (Po)`	`Other Punctuation (Po)`
Block	`Supplemental Punctuation`	`Arabic`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`AL`
Unicode Version	`6.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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