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

Arabic Letter Beh Initial Form is U+FE91 in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block. Arabic Letter Beh is U+0628 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 Beh Initial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Beh Initial Form (U+FE91) is ﺑ.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Beh?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Beh (U+0628) is ب.

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

No. Arabic Letter Beh Initial Form is U+FE91 (decimal 65169) and Arabic Letter Beh is U+0628 (decimal 1576). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Letter Beh Initial Form (U+FE91) encodes as EF BA 91 in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Beh (U+0628) encodes as D8 A8 in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Beh Initial Form vs Arabic Letter Beh

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 Beh Initial Form

U+FE91

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Arabic Letter Beh

U+0628

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Beh Initial Form	Arabic Letter Beh
Codepoint	`U+FE91`	`U+0628`
Decimal	`65169`	`1576`
HTML Entity	`ﺑ`	`ب`
HTML Decimal	`ﺑ`	`ب`
HTML Hex	`ﺑ`	`ب`
UTF-8	`EF BA 91`	`D8 A8`
UTF-16	`FE 91`	`06 28`
UTF-32	`0000FE91`	`00000628`
CSS Escape	`\FE91`	`\628`
JS Escape	`\uFE91`	`\u0628`
Python Escape	`\uFE91`	`\u0628`
URL Encoded	`%EF%BA%91`	`%D8%A8`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Arabic Presentation Forms-B`	`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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