Arabic Supplement

For a list of all Arabic characters encoded in Unicode, see Arabic script in Unicode.

Arabic Supplement
Range	U+0750..U+077F (48 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Arabic
Major alphabets	Khowar Torwali Burushaski Shahmukhi Arwi Jawi script Ajami script Early Persian
Assigned	48 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.1 (2005)	30 (+30)
5.1 (2008)	48 (+18)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

Arabic Supplement is a Unicode block that encodes Arabic letter variants used for writing non-Arabic languages, including languages of Pakistan and Africa, and Old Persian.

Block

Arabic Supplement [1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+075x

ݐ

ݑ

ݒ

ݓ

ݔ

ݕ

ݖ

ݗ

ݘ

ݙ

ݚ

ݛ

ݜ

ݝ

ݞ

ݟ

U+076x

ݠ

ݡ

ݢ

ݣ

ݤ

ݥ

ݦ

ݧ

ݨ

ݩ

ݪ

ݫ

ݬ

ݭ

ݮ

ݯ

U+077x

ݰ

ݱ

ݲ

ݳ

ݴ

ݵ

ݶ

ݷ

ݸ

ݹ

ݺ

ݻ

ݼ

ݽ

ݾ

ݿ

Notes 1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0

History

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

Version	Final code points [a]	Count	L2  ID	WG2  ID	Document
4.1	U+0750..0769	26	L2/02-274		Kew, Jonathan (2002-07-16), Proposal for extensions to the Arabic block
			L2/03-168		Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-02), Proposal to encode Arabic-script letters for African languages
			L2/03-176		Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-03), Proposal to encode Jawi and Moroccan Arabic GAF characters
			L2/03-210		Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-12), Draft chart showing UTC #95 additions to Arabic blocks
			L2/03-223	N2598	Kew, Jonathan (2003-07-10), Proposal to encode additional Arabic-script characters
	U+076A	1	L2/03-228R2	N2627	Kew, Jonathan (2003-09-29), Proposal to encode Marwari LAM WITH BAR Character
			L2/03-240R3		Moore, Lisa (2003-10-21), "Marwari Lam with Bar (B.14.6)", UTC #96 Minutes
	U+076B..076D	3	L2/04-025R	N2723	Kew, Jonathan (2004-03-15), Proposal to encode Additional Arabic script characters
5.1	U+076E..077D	16		N3117	Bashir, Elena; Hussain, Sarmad; Anderson, Deborah (2006-07-27), Proposal to add characters needed for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski
			L2/06-150		Bashir, Elena (2006-05-05), Letters of support for characters needed for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski
			L2/06-149		Bashir, Elena; Hussain, Sarmad; Anderson, Deborah (2006-05-09), Proposal to add characters needed for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski
			L2/06-108		Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "C.18", UTC #107 Minutes
				N3153 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.8", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29
			L2/06-328		Pournader, Roozbeh (2006-10-11), Proposal to change the previously decided name of some Arabic characters
			L2/06-324R2		Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "Consensus 109-C27", UTC #109 Minutes
			L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.4e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27, Names of characters in the range 0773 to 077D are changed by replacing the word 'EASTERN' with 'EXTENDED' in them.
			L2/07-264		Anderson, Deborah (2007-08-06), Shaping behavior of Burushaski characters and other Arabic additions in L2/06-149
			L2/07-225		Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "Burushaski Shaping Behavior", UTC #112 Minutes
			L2/10-158		Mansour, Kamal (2010-05-04), Shaping Behavior of U+0777
			L2/10-108		Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Action item 123-A50", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, Suggest clarifying text in section 8.2 of TUS 5.2 pp 248-249 regarding Yeh and Farsi Yeh joining groups.
	U+077E..077F	2	L2/06-345R	N3180R	Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh; Sarbar, Elnaz (2006-10-24), Proposal to encode eight Arabic characters for Persian and Azerbaijani in the UCS
			L2/06-324R2		Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "C.12", UTC #109 Minutes
			L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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.