Many scripts in Unicode, such as Arabic, have special orthographic rules that require certain combinations of letterforms to be combined into special ligature forms. In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters e and t (spelling et, Latin for and) were combined. The rules governing ligature formation in Arabic can be quite complex, requiring special script-shaping technologies such as the Arabic Calligraphic Engine by Thomas Milo's DecoType.
As of Unicode 16.0, the Arabic script is contained in the following blocks:
Arabic (0600–06FF, 256 characters)
Arabic Supplement (0750–077F, 48 characters)
Arabic Extended-B (0870–089F, 42 characters)
Arabic Extended-A (08A0–08FF, 96 characters)
Arabic Presentation Forms-A (FB50–FDFF, 631 characters)
Arabic Presentation Forms-B (FE70–FEFF, 141 characters)
Rumi Numeral Symbols (10E60–10E7F, 31 characters)
Arabic Extended-C (10EC0-10EFF, 7 characters)
Indic Siyaq Numbers (1EC70–1ECBF, 68 characters)
Ottoman Siyaq Numbers (1ED00–1ED4F, 61 characters)
Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols (1EE00–1EEFF, 143 characters)
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 Extended-B and Arabic Extended-A ranges encode additional Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various 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.
The presentation forms are present only for compatibility with older standards, and are not currently needed for coding text.
The Arabic Mathematical Alphabetical Symbols block encodes characters used in Arabic mathematical expressions.
The Indic Siyaq Numbers block contains a specialized subset of Arabic script that was used for accounting in India under the Mughal Empire by the 17th century through the middle of the 20th century.
The Ottoman Siyaq Numbers block contains a specialized subset of Arabic script, also known as Siyakat numbers, used for accounting in Ottoman Turkish documents.
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As of Unicode 16.0, the Arabic script is contained in the following blocks: [3] 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.
Arabic is a Unicode block, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the Arabic script, and the Arabic-Indic digits. [3] The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic block:
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. ... Arabic (Unicode block)
Arabic is a Unicode block, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the Arabic script, and the Arabic-Indic digits. The Arabic script is a writing system used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa, such as Arabic, the Sorani and Luri dialects of Kurdish, Persian, Pashto, and Urdu.
These charts are provided as the online reference to the character contents of the Unicode Standard, Version 16.0 but do not provide all the information needed to fully support individual scripts using the Unicode Standard.
This page contains codes for basic Arabic script symbols, but does not include the Arabic Presentation blocks. Check the latest Unicode charts to see additional Arabic script codes. Page Content
Q: How are Arabic letters represented in Unicode? In normal writing, the Arabic script employs the consonantal base letters only and omits the vowels. When vowels are written, combining marks that represent the vowels are applied to the base letter.
List of the 1365 unicode characters encoded in the Arabic script.
See “Arabic Cursive Joining,” “Arabic Ligatures,” and “Arabic Joining Groups” in the following text for an extensive discussion of how cursive joining and positional variants of Arabic letters are handled by the Unicode Standard.
"Arabic" is a Unicode block, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the Arabic script, and the Arabic-Indic digits.
