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

Arabic Letter Gueh Initial Form is U+FB98 in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block. Arabic Letter Gueh is U+06B3 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 Gueh Initial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Gueh Initial Form (U+FB98) is ﮘ.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Gueh?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Gueh (U+06B3) is ڳ.

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

No. Arabic Letter Gueh Initial Form is U+FB98 (decimal 64408) and Arabic Letter Gueh is U+06B3 (decimal 1715). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Letter Gueh Initial Form (U+FB98) encodes as EF AE 98 in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Gueh (U+06B3) encodes as DA B3 in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Gueh Initial Form vs Arabic Letter Gueh

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 Gueh Initial Form

U+FB98

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Arabic Letter Gueh

U+06B3

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Gueh Initial Form	Arabic Letter Gueh
Codepoint	`U+FB98`	`U+06B3`
Decimal	`64408`	`1715`
HTML Entity	`ﮘ`	`ڳ`
HTML Decimal	`ﮘ`	`ڳ`
HTML Hex	`ﮘ`	`ڳ`
UTF-8	`EF AE 98`	`DA B3`
UTF-16	`FB 98`	`06 B3`
UTF-32	`0000FB98`	`000006B3`
CSS Escape	`\FB98`	`\6B3`
JS Escape	`\uFB98`	`\u06B3`
Python Escape	`\uFB98`	`\u06B3`
URL Encoded	`%EF%AE%98`	`%DA%B3`
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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