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

Arabic Letter Zah Initial Form is U+FEC7 in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block. Arabic Letter Zah is U+0638 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 Zah Initial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Zah Initial Form (U+FEC7) is ﻇ.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Zah?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Zah (U+0638) is ظ.

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

No. Arabic Letter Zah Initial Form is U+FEC7 (decimal 65223) and Arabic Letter Zah is U+0638 (decimal 1592). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Letter Zah Initial Form (U+FEC7) encodes as EF BB 87 in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Zah (U+0638) encodes as D8 B8 in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Zah Initial Form vs Arabic Letter Zah

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 Zah Initial Form

U+FEC7

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Arabic Letter Zah

U+0638

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Zah Initial Form	Arabic Letter Zah
Codepoint	`U+FEC7`	`U+0638`
Decimal	`65223`	`1592`
HTML Entity	`ﻇ`	`ظ`
HTML Decimal	`ﻇ`	`ظ`
HTML Hex	`ﻇ`	`ظ`
UTF-8	`EF BB 87`	`D8 B8`
UTF-16	`FE C7`	`06 38`
UTF-32	`0000FEC7`	`00000638`
CSS Escape	`\FEC7`	`\638`
JS Escape	`\uFEC7`	`\u0638`
Python Escape	`\uFEC7`	`\u0638`
URL Encoded	`%EF%BB%87`	`%D8%B8`
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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