What is the difference between Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form and Latin Small Letter O?

Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form is U+FBA9 in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block. Latin Small Letter O is U+006F in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form (U+FBA9) is ﮩ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter O?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter O (U+006F) is o.

Are Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form and Latin Small Letter O the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form is U+FBA9 (decimal 64425) and Latin Small Letter O is U+006F (decimal 111). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form and Latin Small Letter O?

Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form (U+FBA9) encodes as EF AE A9 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter O (U+006F) encodes as 6F in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form vs Latin Small Letter O

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 Heh Goal Medial Form

U+FBA9

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Latin Small Letter O

U+006F

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form	Latin Small Letter O
Codepoint	`U+FBA9`	`U+006F`
Decimal	`64425`	`111`
HTML Entity	`ﮩ`	`o`
HTML Decimal	`ﮩ`	`o`
HTML Hex	`ﮩ`	`o`
UTF-8	`EF AE A9`	`6F`
UTF-16	`FB A9`	`00 6F`
UTF-32	`0000FBA9`	`0000006F`
CSS Escape	`\FBA9`	`\6F`
JS Escape	`\uFBA9`	`\u006F`
Python Escape	`\uFBA9`	`\u006F`
URL Encoded	`%EF%AE%A9`	`o`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Arabic Presentation Forms-A`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Arabic`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`AL`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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