Arabic (Unicode block)

Arabic
Range U+0600..U+06FF
(256 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Arabic (237 char.)
Common (6 char.)
Inherited (12 char.)
Major alphabets Arabic
Pashto
Persian
Urdu
Assigned 255 code points
Unused 1 reserved code points
1 deprecated
Source standards ISO 8859-6
Unicode version history
1.0.0 169 (+169)
1.1 194 (+25)
3.0 206 (+12)
3.2 208 (+2)
4.0 227 (+19)
4.1 235 (+8)
5.1 250 (+15)
6.0 252 (+2)
6.1 253 (+1)
6.3 254 (+1)
7.0 255 (+1)

Note: [1][2]

Arabic is a Unicode block, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the Arabic script, and the Arabic-Indic digits.[3]

Block

Arabic[1][2][3]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+060x  ؀   ؁   ؂   ؃   ؄   ؅  ؆ ؇ ؈ ؉ ؊ ؋ ، ؍ ؎ ؏
U+061x ؐ ؑ ؒ ؓ ؔ ؕ ؖ ؗ ؘ ؙ ؚ ؛ ALM ؞ ؟
U+062x ؠ ء آ أ ؤ إ ئ ا ب ة ت ث ج ح خ د
U+063x ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ػ ؼ ؽ ؾ ؿ
U+064x ـ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ى ي ً ٌ ٍ َ ُ
U+065x ِ ّ ْ ٓ ٔ ٕ ٖ ٗ ٘ ٙ ٚ ٛ ٜ ٝ ٞ ٟ
U+066x ٠ ١ ٢ ٣ ٤ ٥ ٦ ٧ ٨ ٩ ٪ ٫ ٬ ٭ ٮ ٯ
U+067x ٰ ٱ ٲ ٳ ٴ ٵ ٶ ٷ ٸ ٹ ٺ ٻ ټ ٽ پ ٿ
U+068x ڀ ځ ڂ ڃ ڄ څ چ ڇ ڈ ډ ڊ ڋ ڌ ڍ ڎ ڏ
U+069x ڐ ڑ ڒ ړ ڔ ڕ ږ ڗ ژ ڙ ښ ڛ ڜ ڝ ڞ ڟ
U+06Ax ڠ ڡ ڢ ڣ ڤ ڥ ڦ ڧ ڨ ک ڪ ګ ڬ ڭ ڮ گ
U+06Bx ڰ ڱ ڲ ڳ ڴ ڵ ڶ ڷ ڸ ڹ ں ڻ ڼ ڽ ھ ڿ
U+06Cx ۀ ہ ۂ ۃ ۄ ۅ ۆ ۇ ۈ ۉ ۊ ۋ ی ۍ ێ ۏ
U+06Dx ې ۑ ے ۓ ۔ ە ۖ ۗ ۘ ۙ ۚ ۛ ۜ  ۝  ۞ ۟
U+06Ex ۠ ۡ ۢ ۣ ۤ ۥ ۦ ۧ ۨ ۩ ۪ ۫ ۬ ۭ ۮ ۯ
U+06Fx ۰ ۱ ۲ ۳ ۴ ۵ ۶ ۷ ۸ ۹ ۺ ۻ ۼ ۽ ۾ ۿ
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0
2.^ Grey area indicates non-assigned code point
3.^ Unicode code point U+0673 is deprecated as of Unicode version 6.0

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+060C, 061B, 061F, 0621..063A, 0640..0652, 0660..066C, 0670..06B7, 06BA..06BE, 06C0..06CE, 06D0..06D5, 06F0..06F9169(to be determined)
L2/01-270Hosken, Martin (2001-06-19), How U+06D5 works in Uighur, Some technical information collected
L2/04-290Karlsson, Kent (2004-07-16), Updating the Arabic Shaping normative data
L2/04-419Davis, Mark (2004-11-18), ArabicShaping suggestion e-mail
L2/09-146Pournader, Roozbeh (2009-04-15), Moving dots and Arabic script shaping: Farsi Yeh's and Jawi Nya
L2/10-045Allawi, Adil (2010-01-27), Proposal for changes to ArabicShaping.txt to allow machine generation of Arabic fonts and glyphs
L2/10-168Mansour, Kamal (2010-05-04), Problems with the joining behavior of Arabic Letter Yeh Barree (U+06D2)
L2/10-108Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "B.13.2", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes
L2/11-092Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-03-08), Changes to schematic names of Arabic letters
L2/11-206N4066Proposing to Supplement with the Script and Character of Chaghatay Language, 2011-04-25
N4067Proposal to Encode Special Scripts and Characters in UCS for Uighur language, 2011-05-15
L2/11-245N4113Aalto, Tero (2011-06-08), Ad hoc report on Uighur
L2/12-063N4218Proposal to add a Named UCS Sequence Identifier UYGHUR LETTERS, 2012-02-02
L2/12-101N4231Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2012-02-09), Comments on N4218 Proposal to add a Named UCS Sequence Identifier UYGHUR LETTERS
L2/12-098N4254"RESOLUTION M59.05 (Named USIs for characters for Uyghur and Chaghatay)", WG2 Resolutions, 2012-02-17
L2/12-381Pournader, Roozbeh (2012-11-03), Initial and medial forms of Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna
L2/12-343R2Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "B.1.1.5", UTC #133 Minutes
L2/13-119Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-05-08), Dot positioning of U+06A3 Arabic Letter Feh with Dot Below
N4463Silamu, Wushour; Anderson, Deborah; Constable, Peter (2013-06-28), User Guidelines for Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Chagatai
L2/13-226Milo, Thomas (2013-11-26), Arabic Amphibious Characters
L2/14-109Milo, Thomas (2014-05-01), Koranic and Classic orthography in Unicode and computer typography
L2/14-136Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-05-08), The right hehs for Arabic script orthographies of Sorani Kurdish and Uighur
1.1U+066D, 06D6..06ED25(to be determined)
L2/01-428Kew, Jonathan (2001-11-01), Request for clarification regarding U+06DD ARABIC END OF AYAH and other Arabic enclosing marks
L2/03-112Pournader, Roozbeh (2003-03-05), New Arabic controls and Arabic joining
L2/05-150Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-05), Arabic errata
L2/05-151Milo, Thomas (2005-05-12), Annotations to the printing of the 1924 Azhar Qur'an
L2/05-203McGowan, Rick (2005-08-04), Public Review Issue #73: Representative Glyphs for Arabic Characters U+06DF, U+06E0, and U+06E1
L2/05-231Mansour, Kamal (2005-08-11), Regarding the proposed changes for the representative glyphs for 06DF, 06E0, and 06E1
L2/06-324R2Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "B.14.2", UTC #109 Minutes
L2/09-358RPournader, Roozbeh (2009-10-28), Discussion document for polishing Koranic support in Unicode
L2/10-209Pournader, Roozbeh (2010-06-07), Public Review Issue #171: Changing the properties of U+06DE from a combining mark to a spacing symbol
3.0U+0653..0655, 06B8..06B9, 06BF, 06CF, 06FA..06FE12(to be determined)
3.2U+066E..066F2L2/00-354Davis, Mark; Mansour, Kamal (2000-10-12), Proposal For Addition To Arabic repertoire
L2/01-150N2357Proposal to encode two Arabic characters to the UCS, 2001-04-04
4.0U+0600..0602, 060D..060E, 0610..0614, 0656..065813L2/00-135Nelson, Paul; Farhan, Ashhar; Hisam, Arif; Hisam, Kashif; Clews, John (2000-04-07), Proposal to Add Urdu Epethit and Abbreviation Diacritics to the Arabic Block
L2/01-303Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
L2/01-304Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
L2/01-305McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
L2/01-425N2483Kew, Jonathan (2001-11-01), Proposal to add Arabic-script honorifics and other marks
L2/01-426Kew, Jonathan (2001-11-01), Proposal to add Arabic-script honorifics and other marks, Appendix: Examples of usage
L2/01-428Kew, Jonathan (2001-11-01), Request for clarification regarding U+06DD ARABIC END OF AYAH and other Arabic enclosing marks
L2/01-439Milo, Tom (2001-11-02), Arabic Year-sign examples
L2/01-430RMcGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, “Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0”
L2/02-061N2482Kew, Jonathan (2002-01-29), Bidi committee consensus on Arabic additions from L2/01-425
L2/02-227N2487Proposal to add 16 Arabic characters, 2002-05-21
L2/03-102Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
L2/03-101.10Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Urdu, Sindhi, and Kashmiri document], 2003-03-04
L2/03-112Pournader, Roozbeh (2003-03-05), New Arabic controls and Arabic joining
L2/04-196N2653Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2004-06-04), "a-3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 44
L2/06-332Esfahbod, Behdad; Pournader, Roozbeh (2006-10-15), Proposal to change the Bidi category of five Arabic characters from AL to AN
L2/06-372Lata, Swaran (2006-11-04), Issues Pertinent to Kashmiri
L2/06-324R2Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "B.14.2", UTC #109 Minutes
L2/15-183RPournader, Roozbeh (2015-07-28), Candidate characters for Grapheme_Cluster_Break=Prepend
U+0603, 060F, 06153N2413Proposal for Incorporation of Urdu in ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode, 2002-01-23
L2/02-005Hussain, Sarmad; Afzal, Muhammad (2001-12-18), Urdu Computing Standards (Charts and Exhibits)
L2/02-006, L2/02-006N2413-1Zia, Khaver (2002-01-10), Towards Unicode Standard for Urdu
L2/02-003N2413-2Afzal, Muhammad; Hussain, Sarmad (2001-12-28), Urdu Computing Standards: Development of Urdu Zabta Takhti (UZT) 1.01
L2/02-004N2413-3Hussain, Sarmad; Afzal, Muhammad (2001-12-28), Urdu Computing Standards: Urdu Zabta Takhti (UZT) 1.01
L2/02-163N2413-4Proposal to add Marks and Digits in Arabic Code Block (for Urdu), 2002-04-30
L2/02-011RKew, Jonathan (2002-01-12), Comments on L2/02-006: Towards Unicode Standard for Urdu
L2/02-197Freytag, Asmus (2002-05-01), Urdu Feedback from Bidi Committee
L2/02-166R2Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), UTC #91 Minutes
L2/02-372N2453Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-10-30), "7.9", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 42
L2/03-034Nelson, Paul; Ross, Fiona; Holloway, Tim; Hudson, John (2003-02-10), Proposal to change character properties of ARABIC SIGN SAFHA (U+0603)
L2/04-196N2653Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2004-06-04), "a-3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 44
U+06EE..06EF, 06FF3L2/01-427N2481Kew, Jonathan (2001-11-01), Proposal to add Parkari letters to Arabic block
L2/02-227N2487Proposal to add 16 Arabic characters, 2002-05-21
4.1U+060B1N2523Everson, Michael (2002-11-20), Proposal to encode the AFGHANI SIGN in the UCS
L2/03-330N2640Everson, Michael (2003-10-01), Revised proposal to encode the AFGHANI SIGN in the UCS
U+061E, 065A..065C4L2/98-274Davis, Mark; Mansour, Kamal (1998-07-28), Proposed Arabic Script Additions for Minority Languages
L2/98-409Davis, Mark; Mansour, Kamal (1998-12-01), Proposal to add 25 Arabic characters to the BMP
L2/02-021Davis, Mark; Mansour, Kamal (2002-01-17), Proposal To Amend Arabic repertoire
L2/03-154Kew, Jonathan; Mansour, Kamal; Davis, Mark (2003-05-16), Proposal to encode productive Arabic-script modifier marks
L2/03-168Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-02), Proposal to encode Arabic-script letters for African languages
L2/03-210Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-12), Draft chart showing UTC #95 additions to Arabic blocks
L2/03-223N2598Kew, Jonathan (2003-07-10), Proposal to encode additional Arabic-script characters
U+06591L2/03-133RN2581R2Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2003-05-29), Proposal to encode the ARABIC ZWARAKAY in the UCS
U+065D..065E2L2/04-025RN2723Kew, Jonathan (2004-03-15), Proposal to encode Additional Arabic script characters
5.1U+0606..060A5L2/05-318Lazrek, Azzeddine (2005-10-24), Proposals for Unicode Consortium [Arabic mathematical symbols]
L2/05-320Lazrek, Azzeddine (2005-07-10), Arabic Mathematical Diverse Symbols, Additional characters proposed to Unicode
L2/06-125N3086, N3086-1Lazrek, Azzeddine (2006-03-30), Diverse Arabic Mathematical Symbols
U+0616, 063B..063F6L2/06-345RN3180REverson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh; Sarbar, Elnaz (2006-10-24), Proposal to encode eight Arabic characters for Persian and Azerbaijani in the UCS
L2/07-221Hallissy, Bob (2007-07-19), Shaping behavior of Arabic characters based on Farsi Yeh [2007.07.19]
L2/07-225Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "B.14.3.1", UTC #112 Minutes
U+0617..061A4L2/06-358RN3185REverson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2006-11-01), Proposal to encode four Qur'anic Arabic characters in the UCS
6.0U+0620, 065F2L2/98-274Davis, Mark; Mansour, Kamal (1998-07-28), Proposed Arabic Script Additions for Minority Languages
L2/98-409Davis, Mark; Mansour, Kamal (1998-12-01), Proposal to add 25 Arabic characters to the BMP
L2/02-021Davis, Mark; Mansour, Kamal (2002-01-17), Proposal To Amend Arabic repertoire
L2/09-406N3686Proposal to add one character in the Arabic block for representation of Kashmiri and annotation of existing characters, 2008-10-24
L2/09-176Aazim, Muzaffar; Mansour, Kamal; Pournader, Roozbeh (2009-04-30), Proposal to add two Kashmiri characters and one annotation to the Arabic block
L2/09-215Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2009-05-14), Proposal to add two Kashmiri characters
L2/10-169Lata, Swaran (2010-05-06), Comments on the Proposed Arabic Letter Kashmiri Yeh
6.1U+06041L2/09-144R3N3734Pandey, Anshuman (2009-11-20), Proposal to Encode the Samvat Date Sign for Arabic
6.3U+061C1L2/03-159Kew, Jonathan (2003-05-28), Proposal to encode Arabic triple dot punctuation mark
L2/11-005Allouche, Matitiahu; Mohie, Mohamed (2011-01-16), Proposal to encode an Arabic-Letter Mark (ALM)
L2/11-016Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "Scripts and Symbols — Arabic letter mark", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes
L2/11-278Allouche, Matitiahu; Mohie, Mohamed (2011-07-17), Proposal to encode an Arabic-Letter Mark (ALM)
L2/11-397Edberg, Peter (2011-10-25), Proposed addition of AL MARK and LEVEL DIRECTION MARK (PRI #205 background)
L2/11-398Edberg, Peter (2011-10-25), Accumulated Feedback on PRI #205 (moderated)
L2/11-330N4181Anderson, Deborah (2011-11-04), Proposed Additions to ISO/IEC 10646
L2/11-353Moore, Lisa (2011-11-30), "B.11.18", UTC #129 / L2 #226 Minutes
L2/11-432RN4180Allouche, Matitiahu; Mohie, Mohamed (2012-02-15), Proposal to encode the Arabic Letter Mark (ALM)
L2/13-040Pournader, Roozbeh; Lanin, Aharon (2013-01-29), Fasttracking Arabic Letter Mark (ALM)
L2/13-011Moore, Lisa (2013-02-04), UTC #134 Minutes
L2/13-240Davis, Mark (2013-12-12), Reconciling Script and Script_Extensions
7.0U+06051L2/09-163RPandey, Anshuman (2009-09-15), Proposal to Encode Coptic Numerals in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/10-114N3786Pandey, Anshuman (2010-04-10), Towards an Encoding for Coptic Numbers in the UCS
L2/10-206RN3843RPandey, Anshuman (2010-06-21), Final Proposal to Encode Coptic Numbers
L2/10-421RN3958RPandey, Anshuman (2010-11-01), Request to Rename ‘Coptic Numbers’ to ‘Coptic Epact Numerals’
L2/11-062RN3990Pandey, Anshuman (2011-02-14), Final Proposal to Encode Coptic Epact Numbers
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.0, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. ISBN 978-1-936213-01-6), Chapter 8
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