What is the difference between Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form and Arabic Letter Gaf?

Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form is U+FB94 in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block. Arabic Letter Gaf is U+06AF 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 Letter Gaf Initial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form (U+FB94) is ﮔ.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Gaf?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Gaf (U+06AF) is گ.

Are Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form and Arabic Letter Gaf the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form is U+FB94 (decimal 64404) and Arabic Letter Gaf is U+06AF (decimal 1711). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form and Arabic Letter Gaf?

Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form (U+FB94) encodes as EF AE 94 in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Gaf (U+06AF) encodes as DA AF in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form vs Arabic Letter Gaf

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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Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form

U+FB94

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Arabic Letter Gaf

U+06AF

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form	Arabic Letter Gaf
Codepoint	`U+FB94`	`U+06AF`
Decimal	`64404`	`1711`
HTML Entity	`ﮔ`	`گ`
HTML Decimal	`ﮔ`	`گ`
HTML Hex	`ﮔ`	`گ`
UTF-8	`EF AE 94`	`DA AF`
UTF-16	`FB 94`	`06 AF`
UTF-32	`0000FB94`	`000006AF`
CSS Escape	`\FB94`	`\6AF`
JS Escape	`\uFB94`	`\u06AF`
Python Escape	`\uFB94`	`\u06AF`
URL Encoded	`%EF%AE%94`	`%DA%AF`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Arabic Presentation Forms-A`	`Arabic`
Script	`Arabic`	`Arabic`
Bidi Class	`AL`	`AL`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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