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

Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form is U+FEDF in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block. Arabic Letter Lam is U+0644 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 Lam Initial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form (U+FEDF) is ﻟ.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Lam?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Lam (U+0644) is ل.

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

No. Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form is U+FEDF (decimal 65247) and Arabic Letter Lam is U+0644 (decimal 1604). They are separate codepoints.

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

Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form (U+FEDF) encodes as EF BB 9F in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Lam (U+0644) encodes as D9 84 in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form vs Arabic Letter Lam

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 Lam Initial Form

U+FEDF

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Arabic Letter Lam

U+0644

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Lam Initial Form	Arabic Letter Lam
Codepoint	`U+FEDF`	`U+0644`
Decimal	`65247`	`1604`
HTML Entity	`ﻟ`	`ل`
HTML Decimal	`ﻟ`	`ل`
HTML Hex	`ﻟ`	`ل`
UTF-8	`EF BB 9F`	`D9 84`
UTF-16	`FE DF`	`06 44`
UTF-32	`0000FEDF`	`00000644`
CSS Escape	`\FEDF`	`\644`
JS Escape	`\uFEDF`	`\u0644`
Python Escape	`\uFEDF`	`\u0644`
URL Encoded	`%EF%BB%9F`	`%D9%84`
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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