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

Arabic Letter Qaf Initial Form is U+FED7 in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block. Arabic Letter Qaf is U+0642 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 Qaf Initial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Qaf Initial Form (U+FED7) is ﻗ.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Qaf?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Qaf (U+0642) is ق.

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

No. Arabic Letter Qaf Initial Form is U+FED7 (decimal 65239) and Arabic Letter Qaf is U+0642 (decimal 1602). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Letter Qaf Initial Form (U+FED7) encodes as EF BB 97 in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Qaf (U+0642) encodes as D9 82 in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Qaf Initial Form vs Arabic Letter Qaf

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 Qaf Initial Form

U+FED7

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Arabic Letter Qaf

U+0642

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Qaf Initial Form	Arabic Letter Qaf
Codepoint	`U+FED7`	`U+0642`
Decimal	`65239`	`1602`
HTML Entity	`ﻗ`	`ق`
HTML Decimal	`ﻗ`	`ق`
HTML Hex	`ﻗ`	`ق`
UTF-8	`EF BB 97`	`D9 82`
UTF-16	`FE D7`	`06 42`
UTF-32	`0000FED7`	`00000642`
CSS Escape	`\FED7`	`\642`
JS Escape	`\uFED7`	`\u0642`
Python Escape	`\uFED7`	`\u0642`
URL Encoded	`%EF%BB%97`	`%D9%82`
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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