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

Arabic Letter Kaf Initial Form is U+FEDB in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block. Arabic Letter Kaf is U+0643 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 Kaf Initial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Kaf Initial Form (U+FEDB) is ﻛ.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Kaf?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Kaf (U+0643) is ك.

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

No. Arabic Letter Kaf Initial Form is U+FEDB (decimal 65243) and Arabic Letter Kaf is U+0643 (decimal 1603). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Letter Kaf Initial Form (U+FEDB) encodes as EF BB 9B in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Kaf (U+0643) encodes as D9 83 in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Kaf Initial Form vs Arabic Letter Kaf

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.

ﻛ

Arabic Letter Kaf Initial Form

U+FEDB

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Arabic Letter Kaf

U+0643

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Kaf Initial Form	Arabic Letter Kaf
Codepoint	`U+FEDB`	`U+0643`
Decimal	`65243`	`1603`
HTML Entity	`ﻛ`	`ك`
HTML Decimal	`ﻛ`	`ك`
HTML Hex	`ﻛ`	`ك`
UTF-8	`EF BB 9B`	`D9 83`
UTF-16	`FE DB`	`06 43`
UTF-32	`0000FEDB`	`00000643`
CSS Escape	`\FEDB`	`\643`
JS Escape	`\uFEDB`	`\u0643`
Python Escape	`\uFEDB`	`\u0643`
URL Encoded	`%EF%BB%9B`	`%D9%83`
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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