What is the difference between Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form and Arabic Letter Sad?

Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form is U+FEB9 in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block. Arabic Letter Sad is U+0635 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 Sad Isolated Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form (U+FEB9) is ﺹ.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Sad?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Sad (U+0635) is ص.

Are Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form and Arabic Letter Sad the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form is U+FEB9 (decimal 65209) and Arabic Letter Sad is U+0635 (decimal 1589). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form and Arabic Letter Sad?

Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form (U+FEB9) encodes as EF BA B9 in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Sad (U+0635) encodes as D8 B5 in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form vs Arabic Letter Sad

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 Sad Isolated Form

U+FEB9

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Arabic Letter Sad

U+0635

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form	Arabic Letter Sad
Codepoint	`U+FEB9`	`U+0635`
Decimal	`65209`	`1589`
HTML Entity	`ﺹ`	`ص`
HTML Decimal	`ﺹ`	`ص`
HTML Hex	`ﺹ`	`ص`
UTF-8	`EF BA B9`	`D8 B5`
UTF-16	`FE B9`	`06 35`
UTF-32	`0000FEB9`	`00000635`
CSS Escape	`\FEB9`	`\635`
JS Escape	`\uFEB9`	`\u0635`
Python Escape	`\uFEB9`	`\u0635`
URL Encoded	`%EF%BA%B9`	`%D8%B5`
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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