What is the difference between Arabic Letter Dad Final Form and Arabic Letter Dad?

Arabic Letter Dad Final Form is U+FEBE in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block. Arabic Letter Dad is U+0636 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 Dad Final Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Dad Final Form (U+FEBE) is ﺾ.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Dad?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Dad (U+0636) is ض.

Are Arabic Letter Dad Final Form and Arabic Letter Dad the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Letter Dad Final Form is U+FEBE (decimal 65214) and Arabic Letter Dad is U+0636 (decimal 1590). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Arabic Letter Dad Final Form and Arabic Letter Dad?

Arabic Letter Dad Final Form (U+FEBE) encodes as EF BA BE in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Dad (U+0636) encodes as D8 B6 in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Dad Final Form vs Arabic Letter Dad

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 Dad Final Form

U+FEBE

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Arabic Letter Dad

U+0636

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Dad Final Form	Arabic Letter Dad
Codepoint	`U+FEBE`	`U+0636`
Decimal	`65214`	`1590`
HTML Entity	`ﺾ`	`ض`
HTML Decimal	`ﺾ`	`ض`
HTML Hex	`ﺾ`	`ض`
UTF-8	`EF BA BE`	`D8 B6`
UTF-16	`FE BE`	`06 36`
UTF-32	`0000FEBE`	`00000636`
CSS Escape	`\FEBE`	`\636`
JS Escape	`\uFEBE`	`\u0636`
Python Escape	`\uFEBE`	`\u0636`
URL Encoded	`%EF%BA%BE`	`%D8%B6`
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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