What is the difference between Arabic Letter Yeh Initial Form and Arabic Letter Alef Maksura?

Arabic Letter Yeh Initial Form is U+FEF3 in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block. Arabic Letter Alef Maksura is U+0649 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 Yeh Initial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Yeh Initial Form (U+FEF3) is ﻳ.

What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Alef Maksura?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Alef Maksura (U+0649) is ى.

Are Arabic Letter Yeh Initial Form and Arabic Letter Alef Maksura the same Unicode character?

No. Arabic Letter Yeh Initial Form is U+FEF3 (decimal 65267) and Arabic Letter Alef Maksura is U+0649 (decimal 1609). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Arabic Letter Yeh Initial Form and Arabic Letter Alef Maksura?

Arabic Letter Yeh Initial Form (U+FEF3) encodes as EF BB B3 in UTF-8. Arabic Letter Alef Maksura (U+0649) encodes as D9 89 in UTF-8.

Arabic Letter Yeh Initial Form vs Arabic Letter Alef Maksura

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 Yeh Initial Form

U+FEF3

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Arabic Letter Alef Maksura

U+0649

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Property Comparison

Property	Arabic Letter Yeh Initial Form	Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
Codepoint	`U+FEF3`	`U+0649`
Decimal	`65267`	`1609`
HTML Entity	`ﻳ`	`ى`
HTML Decimal	`ﻳ`	`ى`
HTML Hex	`ﻳ`	`ى`
UTF-8	`EF BB B3`	`D9 89`
UTF-16	`FE F3`	`06 49`
UTF-32	`0000FEF3`	`00000649`
CSS Escape	`\FEF3`	`\649`
JS Escape	`\uFEF3`	`\u0649`
Python Escape	`\uFEF3`	`\u0649`
URL Encoded	`%EF%BB%B3`	`%D9%89`
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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