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Old North Arabian Unicode Characters

Script: Old North Arabian (Narb) 32 matching characters

The Old North Arabian script (ISO 15924 code Narb) is an official Unicode writing system defined in UAX #24.

Script vs. Block Distinction: In the Unicode Standard, a Script identifies a functional writing system and frequently spans multiple distinct blocks (e.g. Old North Arabian characters appear across 1 blocks). Conversely, a Block is merely a contiguous geometric range of code points that may contain characters belonging to different scripts.

Unicode Block Distribution

Characters belonging to the Old North Arabian script are distributed across 1 distinct Unicode blocks.

General Category Breakdown

Typological distribution of Old North Arabian characters across formal Unicode general categories.

"Lo" "Lo" 29
"No" "No" 3

Unicode Version Additions

Timeline of when characters in the Old North Arabian script were standardized in Unicode.

Character properties, formal aliases (Narb), block distributions, and Script_Extensions relationships for the Old North Arabian script are compiled directly from the official Unicode Character Database (UCD 17.0.0) per Unicode Standard Annex #24 published by the Unicode Consortium. For methodology and citation details, visit Data Sources.