Arabic Extended-B

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Arabic Extended-B
RangeU+0870..U+089F
(48 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Arabic
Major alphabetsBosnian
Javanese
Sorabe
Sundanese
Assigned43 code points
Unused5 reserved code points
Unicode version history
14.0 (2021)41 (+41)
16.0 (2024)42 (+1)
17.0 (2025)43 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

Arabic Extended-B is a Unicode block encoding Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages. The block also includes currency symbols and an abbreviation mark. [3]

Contents

Block

Arabic Extended-B [1] [2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+087x
U+088x
U+089x    
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 17.0
2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 14.0.0, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. ISBN   978-1-936213-29-0), Chapter 9