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Arabic Block

Range: U+0600–U+06FF Capacity: 256 code points Assigned: 256 characters Plane 0 (BMP)

The Arabic block encompasses code points in the range U+0600–U+06FF within Basic Multilingual Plane.

Subtending marks

5 characters
U+0600
FORMAT
U+0601
FORMAT
U+0602
FORMAT
U+0603
FORMAT
U+0604
FORMAT

Supertending mark

1 characters

Radix symbols

2 characters
U+0606
CHARACTER
U+0607
CHARACTER

Letterlike symbol

1 characters
U+0608
CHARACTER
ARABIC RAY
Sm Arabic

Punctuation

13 characters

Currency symbol

1 characters
U+060B
CHARACTER
AFGHANI SIGN
Sc Arabic

Poetic marks

2 characters
U+060E
CHARACTER
U+060F
CHARACTER

Quranic annotation sign

1 characters

Extended Arabic mark

1 characters

Quranic annotation signs

28 characters
U+0618
COMBINING MARK
U+0619
COMBINING MARK
U+061A
COMBINING MARK
U+06E5
CHARACTER
U+06E6
CHARACTER
U+06E9
CHARACTER

Format character

1 characters
U+061C
FORMAT

Addition for Kashmiri

1 characters

Based on ISO 8859-6

37 characters
U+0621
CHARACTER
U+0627
CHARACTER
U+0628
CHARACTER
U+062A
CHARACTER
U+062B
CHARACTER
U+062C
CHARACTER
U+062D
CHARACTER
U+062E
CHARACTER
U+062F
CHARACTER
U+0630
CHARACTER
U+0631
CHARACTER
U+0632
CHARACTER
U+0633
CHARACTER
U+0634
CHARACTER
U+0635
CHARACTER
U+0636
CHARACTER
U+0637
CHARACTER
U+0638
CHARACTER
U+0639
CHARACTER
U+063A
CHARACTER
U+0640
CHARACTER
U+0641
CHARACTER
U+0642
CHARACTER
U+0643
CHARACTER
U+0644
CHARACTER
U+0645
CHARACTER
U+0646
CHARACTER
U+0647
CHARACTER
U+0648
CHARACTER
U+064A
CHARACTER

Tashkil from ISO 8859-6

8 characters

Combining maddah and hamza

3 characters

Arabic-Indic digits

10 characters
U+0660
CHARACTER
U+0661
CHARACTER
U+0662
CHARACTER
U+0663
CHARACTER
U+0664
CHARACTER
U+0665
CHARACTER
U+0666
CHARACTER
U+0667
CHARACTER
U+0668
CHARACTER
U+0669
CHARACTER

Archaic letters

2 characters

Tashkil

1 characters

Extended Arabic letters

96 characters
U+0671
CHARACTER
U+0679
CHARACTER
U+067A
CHARACTER
U+067B
CHARACTER
U+067E
CHARACTER
U+067F
CHARACTER
U+0680
CHARACTER
U+0683
CHARACTER
U+0684
CHARACTER
U+0686
CHARACTER
U+0687
CHARACTER
U+0688
CHARACTER
U+068C
CHARACTER
U+068D
CHARACTER
U+068E
CHARACTER
U+0691
CHARACTER
U+0698
CHARACTER
U+06A4
CHARACTER
U+06A6
CHARACTER
U+06A9
CHARACTER
U+06AA
CHARACTER
U+06AD
CHARACTER
U+06AF
CHARACTER
U+06B1
CHARACTER
U+06B3
CHARACTER
U+06BB
CHARACTER
U+06C1
CHARACTER
U+06C5
CHARACTER
U+06C6
CHARACTER
U+06C7
CHARACTER
U+06C8
CHARACTER
U+06C9
CHARACTER
U+06CB
CHARACTER
U+06CC
CHARACTER
U+06D0
CHARACTER
U+06D2
CHARACTER

Deprecated letter

1 characters

High hamza

1 characters
U+0674
CHARACTER

Digraphic letters for Kazakh

4 characters

Extended Arabic letter

1 characters
U+06D5
CHARACTER

Extended Arabic letters for Parkari

2 characters

Signs for Sindhi

2 characters

Extended Arabic letter for Parkari

1 characters

Arabic Technical Factsheet

Block Name Arabic
Canonical Code Point Range U+0600 – U+06FF
Decimal Range 1,536 – 1,791
Total Code Point Capacity 256 code points
Assigned Characters 256 assigned (100% allocated)
Unassigned Reserved Capacity 0 (Fully allocated)
Unicode Plane Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Primary Writing System / Script "Arabic"
Introduced In Unicode 1.0.0
Standard Specification Unicode Standard 17.0.0 (UCD Blocks.txt)

Writing Systems & Scripts in Arabic

"Arabic" 238 chars
"Inherited" 12 chars
"Common" 6 chars

Character Categories in Arabic

"Lo" "Lo" 150 chars
"Mn" "Mn" 52 chars
"Nd" "Nd" 20 chars
"Po" "Po" 13 chars
"Cf" "Cf" 8 chars
"So" "So" 6 chars
"Sm" "Sm" 3 chars
"Lm" "Lm" 3 chars

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