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

Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form is U+FECB in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block. Arabic Letter Ain is U+0639 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 Ain Initial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form (U+FECB) is ﻋ.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Ain?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Ain (U+0639) is ع.

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

No. Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form is U+FECB (decimal 65227) and Arabic Letter Ain is U+0639 (decimal 1593). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form (U+FECB) encodes as EF BB 8B in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Ain (U+0639) encodes as D8 B9 in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form vs Arabic Letter Ain

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 Ain Initial Form

U+FECB

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Arabic Letter Ain

U+0639

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form	Arabic Letter Ain
Codepoint	`U+FECB`	`U+0639`
Decimal	`65227`	`1593`
HTML Entity	`ﻋ`	`ع`
HTML Decimal	`ﻋ`	`ع`
HTML Hex	`ﻋ`	`ع`
UTF-8	`EF BB 8B`	`D8 B9`
UTF-16	`FE CB`	`06 39`
UTF-32	`0000FECB`	`00000639`
CSS Escape	`\FECB`	`\639`
JS Escape	`\uFECB`	`\u0639`
Python Escape	`\uFECB`	`\u0639`
URL Encoded	`%EF%BB%8B`	`%D8%B9`
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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