Arabic Unicode

As of Unicode 5.0, the following ranges encode Arabic characters:

• Unicode chart Arabic (0600–06FF)
• Unicode chart Arabic Supplement (0750–077F)
• Unicode chart Arabic Presentation Forms-A (FB50–FDFF)
• Unicode chart Arabic Presentation Forms-B (FE70–FEFF)

The basic Arabic range encodes the standard letters and diacritics, but does not encode contextual forms (U+0621–U+0652 being directly based on ISO 8859-6); and also includes the most common diacritics and Arabic-Indic digits. The Arabic Supplement range encodes letter variants mostly used for writing African (non-Arabic) languages. The Arabic Presentation Forms-A range encodes contextual forms and ligatures of letter variants needed for Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Central Asian languages. The Arabic Presentation Forms-B range encodes spacing forms of Arabic diacritics, and more contextual letter forms.

Punctuation and ornaments

• U+060C : "ARABIC COMMA"
• U+060D : "ARABIC DATE SEPARATOR"
• U+060E : "ARABIC POETIC VERSE BEGIN"
• U+060F : "ARABIC SIGN MISRA"
• U+066D : "ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR"
• U+06DD : "ARABIC END OF AYAH"
• U+06DE : "ARABIC START OF RUB EL HIZB"
• U+06E9 : "ARABIC ARABIC PLACE OF SAJDAH"
• U+FD3E : "ARABIC ORNATE LEFT PARENTHESIS"
• U+FD3F : "ARABIC ORNATE RIGHT PARENTHESIS"

Word ligatures

Arabic Presentation Forms-A has a few characters defined as "word ligatures" for terms frequently used in formulaic expressions in Arabic.

• U+FDF0 : "SALLA USED AS KORANIC STOP SIGN ISOLATED FORM" صلے
• U+FDF1 : "QALA USED AS KORANIC STOP SIGN ISOLATED FORM" قلے
• U+FDF2 : "ALLAH ISOLATED FORM" -- الله.
• U+FDF3 : "AKBAR ISOLATED FORM" اكبر
• U+FDF4 : "MOHAMMED ISOLATED FORM" محمد
• U+FDF5 : "SALAM ISOLATED FORM" صلعم "peace be upon him"
• U+FDF6 : "RASOUL ISOLATED FORM" رسول
• U+FDF7 : "ALAYHE" عليه
• U+FDF8 : "WASALLAM" وسلم
• U+FDF9 : "SALLA ISLOATED FORM"
• U+FDFA : "SALLALLAHOU ALAYHA WASALLAM" صلى الله عليه وسلم "peace be upon him"
• U+FDFB : "JALLAJALALOUHOU" جل جلاله
• U+FDFC : the Rial currency sign ريال
• U+FDFD : the Basmala

Character charts

See also

• Latin Unicode
• Mapping of Unicode characters