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

Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form is U+FEBB 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 Initial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form (U+FEBB) 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 Initial Form and Arabic Letter Sad the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form is U+FEBB (decimal 65211) and Arabic Letter Sad is U+0635 (decimal 1589). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form (U+FEBB) encodes as EF BA BB in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Sad (U+0635) encodes as D8 B5 in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Sad Initial 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 Initial Form

U+FEBB

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Arabic Letter Sad

U+0635

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Sad Initial Form	Arabic Letter Sad
Codepoint	`U+FEBB`	`U+0635`
Decimal	`65211`	`1589`
HTML Entity	`ﺻ`	`ص`
HTML Decimal	`ﺻ`	`ص`
HTML Hex	`ﺻ`	`ص`
UTF-8	`EF BA BB`	`D8 B5`
UTF-16	`FE BB`	`06 35`
UTF-32	`0000FEBB`	`00000635`
CSS Escape	`\FEBB`	`\635`
JS Escape	`\uFEBB`	`\u0635`
Python Escape	`\uFEBB`	`\u0635`
URL Encoded	`%EF%BA%BB`	`%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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