What is the difference between Arabic Letter E Initial Form and Arabic Letter Beeh?

Arabic Letter E Initial Form is U+FBE6 in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block. Arabic Letter Beeh is U+067B 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 E Initial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter E Initial Form (U+FBE6) is ﯦ.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Beeh?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Beeh (U+067B) is ٻ.

Are Arabic Letter E Initial Form and Arabic Letter Beeh the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Letter E Initial Form is U+FBE6 (decimal 64486) and Arabic Letter Beeh is U+067B (decimal 1659). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Letter E Initial Form (U+FBE6) encodes as EF AF A6 in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Beeh (U+067B) encodes as D9 BB in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter E Initial Form vs Arabic Letter Beeh

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 E Initial Form

U+FBE6

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Arabic Letter Beeh

U+067B

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter E Initial Form	Arabic Letter Beeh
Codepoint	`U+FBE6`	`U+067B`
Decimal	`64486`	`1659`
HTML Entity	`ﯦ`	`ٻ`
HTML Decimal	`ﯦ`	`ٻ`
HTML Hex	`ﯦ`	`ٻ`
UTF-8	`EF AF A6`	`D9 BB`
UTF-16	`FB E6`	`06 7B`
UTF-32	`0000FBE6`	`0000067B`
CSS Escape	`\FBE6`	`\67B`
JS Escape	`\uFBE6`	`\u067B`
Python Escape	`\uFBE6`	`\u067B`
URL Encoded	`%EF%AF%A6`	`%D9%BB`
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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