Arabic Extended-A
Unicode character block
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Arabic Extended-A is a Unicode block encoding Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages.[3]
RangeU+08A0..U+08FF
(96 code points)
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
Major alphabetsAfrican languages
Bashkir
Belarusian
Berber
Chechen
Crimean Tatar
Hindko
Lak
Philippine languages
Punjabi
Rohingya
Tatar
Arwi
Bashkir
Belarusian
Berber
Chechen
Crimean Tatar
Hindko
Lak
Philippine languages
Punjabi
Rohingya
Tatar
Arwi
| Arabic Extended-A | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+08A0..U+08FF (96 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Arabic (95 char.) Common (1 char.) |
| Major alphabets | African languages Bashkir Belarusian Berber Chechen Crimean Tatar Hindko Lak Philippine languages Punjabi Rohingya Tatar Arwi |
| Assigned | 96 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.1 (2012) | 39 (+39) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 47 (+8) |
| 8.0 (2015) | 50 (+3) |
| 9.0 (2016) | 73 (+23) |
| 11.0 (2018) | 74 (+1) |
| 13.0 (2020) | 84 (+10) |
| 14.0 (2021) | 96 (+12) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Block
| Arabic Extended-A[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+08Ax | ࢠ | ࢡ | ࢢ | ࢣ | ࢤ | ࢥ | ࢦ | ࢧ | ࢨ | ࢩ | ࢪ | ࢫ | ࢬ | ࢭ | ࢮ | ࢯ |
| U+08Bx | ࢰ | ࢱ | ࢲ | ࢳ | ࢴ | ࢵ | ࢶ | ࢷ | ࢸ | ࢹ | ࢺ | ࢻ | ࢼ | ࢽ | ࢾ | ࢿ |
| U+08Cx | ࣀ | ࣁ | ࣂ | ࣃ | ࣄ | ࣅ | ࣆ | ࣇ | ࣈ | ࣉ | ࣊ | ࣋ | ࣌ | ࣍ | ࣎ | ࣏ |
| U+08Dx | ࣐ | ࣑ | ࣒ | ࣓ | ࣔ | ࣕ | ࣖ | ࣗ | ࣘ | ࣙ | ࣚ | ࣛ | ࣜ | ࣝ | ࣞ | ࣟ |
| U+08Ex | ࣠ | ࣡ | | ࣣ | ࣤ | ࣥ | ࣦ | ࣧ | ࣨ | ࣩ | ࣪ | ࣫ | ࣬ | ࣭ | ࣮ | ࣯ |
| U+08Fx | ࣰ | ࣱ | ࣲ | ࣳ | ࣴ | ࣵ | ࣶ | ࣷ | ࣸ | ࣹ | ࣺ | ࣻ | ࣼ | ࣽ | ࣾ | ࣿ |
Notes
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History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic Extended-A block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | U+08A0, 08A2..08AC, 08E4..08EF, 08F4..08FE | 35 | L2/10-288R | N3882 | Priest, Lorna; Hosken, Martin (2010-08-12), Proposal to add Arabic script characters for African and Asian languages |
| L2/10-221 | Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "C.11.2", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes | ||||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| U+08F0..08F3 | 4 | L2/01-325 | Milo, Thomas (2001-08-14), Three kinds of variation in Arabic script (sukun and jazm) | ||
| L2/02-275 | Kew, Jonathan (2002-08-02), Proposal for Koranic alternate marks | ||||
| L2/09-335R | Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "C.31", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes | ||||
| L2/10-094 | N3816 | King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex (2010-03-21), Proposal to change some combining Arabic characters for Quranic representation | |||
| L2/09-419R | N3791 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2010-03-30), Proposal to encode four combining Arabic characters for Koranic use | |||
| L2/10-155 | Schmitt, Arno; Hosny, Khaled (2010-05-03), Reservations on L2/09-419 proposal | ||||
| L2/10-221 | Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "C.11.1", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes | ||||
| N3803 (pdf, doc) | "M56.08j", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24 | ||||
| L2/10-371 | N3920 | Lazrek, Azzeddine (2010-09-30), Comments on Resolutions from Meeting 56 (and the 3rd edition) concerning Koranic characters | |||
| 7.0 | U+08A1 | 1 | L2/10-288R | N3882 | Priest, Lorna; Hosken, Martin (2010-08-12), Proposal to add Arabic script characters for African and Asian languages |
| L2/10-442R | N3988 | Priest, Lorna; Hosken, Martin (2010-10-29), Proposal to add ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE | |||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| N4103 | "11.2.6 Arabic Letter BEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| U+08AD..08B1 | 5 | L2/11-138 | Yevlampiev, Ilya; Pentzlin, Karl; Joomagueldinov, Nurlan (2011-04-28), Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, Karachay, Karakalpak, and Tatar languages | ||
| L2/11-190 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-12), Proposed codepoints and properties for characters in L2/11-138 | ||||
| L2/11-201 | N4065 | Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2011-05-12), Proposed codepoints and properties for characters in "Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, Karachay, Karakalpak, and Tatar languages" | |||
| L2/11-116 | Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "C.17.1.1", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes | ||||
| L2/11-209 | N4071, N4072 | Yevlampiev, Ilya; Pentzlin, Karl; Joomagueldinov, Nurlan (2011-05-20), Revised Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, and Tatar languages | |||
| N4103 | "11.12 Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, and Tatar languages", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| U+08B2 | 1 | L2/12-181R | N4271 | Priest, Lorna A. (2012-05-09), Proposal to add ARABIC LETTER ZAIN WITH INVERTED V ABOVE | |
| L2/12-112 | Moore, Lisa (2012-05-17), "C.19", UTC #131 / L2 #228 Minutes | ||||
| U+08FF | 1 | L2/11-033R | N3989 | Priest, Lorna (2011-02-10), Proposal to add Arabic Mark Sideways Noon Ghunna | |
| L2/11-016 | Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "C.2.2", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes | ||||
| N4103 | "11.2.5 Arabic Mark SIDEWAYS NOON GHUNNA", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| 8.0 | U+08B3..08B4, 08E3 | 3 | L2/08-429 | Buhari, Seyed (2008-12-04), Additional Arabic letters needed for Arwi Script | |
| L2/09-143 | Buhari, Seyed (2009-04-15), Additional Arabic letters needed for Arwi Script | ||||
| L2/13-165 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), "2", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/13-132 | Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C22", UTC #136 Minutes | ||||
| L2/13-168 | Ganesan, Naga (2013-07-29), Comment on L2/13-130: Writing classical Tamil in Arabic script | ||||
| L2/13-130R | N4474 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-08-19), Proposal to encode three Arabic characters for Arwi | |||
| N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.04a", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA | ||||
| L2/22-221 | Nasrullah, Febri Muhammad (2022-09-11), On ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH DOT BELOW [Affects U+08B4] | ||||
| L2/22-248 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2022-10-31), "3 Arabic", Recommendations to UTC #173 October 2022 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/22-241 | Constable, Peter (2022-11-09), "D.1.5 Arabic: Kaf with dot below", Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 173, Add an annotation to U+08B4 | ||||
| 9.0 | U+08B6..08BA | 5 | L2/13-178 | Banafunzi, Hamid; Banafunzi, Marghani; Nuur, Maxamed (2013-08-31), Proposal to encode five Arabic script characters for the Bravanese (Chimiini) | |
| L2/13-210 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-10-31), "4", Recommendations to UTC #137 November 2013 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/13-223R | N4498 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-11-06), Proposal to encode four Arabic characters for Bravanese | |||
| L2/13-200 | Moore, Lisa (2013-11-18), "C.3.1.1", UTC #137 Minutes | ||||
| N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.09c, M62.09i", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA | ||||
| L2/14-293R | Pournader, Roozbeh; Afshar, Shervin (2014-11-01), Proposal to Encode Arabic Letter Teh with Small Teh Above for Bravanese | ||||
| L2/14-250 | Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), "C.3.3", UTC #141 Minutes | ||||
| U+08BB..08BD | 3 | L2/14-104 | Evans, Lorna (2014-04-29), Supporting the Warsh orthography for Arabic script | ||
| L2/14-129 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-05-02), "8", Recommendations to UTC #139 May 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/14-170 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), "18", Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/14-207R | Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-08-09), Implications of the Unicode Arabic model for the Warsh orthography | ||||
| L2/14-211 | N4597 | Evans, Lorna (2014-08-15), Proposal to encode Warsh-based Arabic script characters | |||
| L2/14-177 | Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "Warsh Orthography (C.3.2)", UTC #140 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.03h", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 | |||
| U+08D4 | 1 | L2/14-148 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2014-06-26), Proposal to encode Quranic mark Ar-Rbaa used in Quran published in Pakistan | ||
| L2/14-170 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), "7", Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| N4592 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2014-08-11), Proposal to encode Quranic mark Ar-Rub used in Quran published in Pakistan | ||||
| L2/14-177 | Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "Quranic mark Ar-Rbaa (C.3.1.1)", UTC #140 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.03g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 | |||
| U+08D5..08E2 | 14 | L2/14-095 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2014-04-24), Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Pakistan | ||
| L2/14-129 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-05-02), "7", Recommendations to UTC #139 May 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/14-100 | Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), "C.3.1.3", UTC #139 Minutes | ||||
| L2/14-105R | N4589 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-07-27), Proposal to encode fourteen Pakistani Quranic marks | |||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.02b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 | |||
| L2/15-254 | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C16", UTC #145 Minutes, Change the name of U+08E2 to ARABIC DISPUTED END OF AYAH | ||||
| N4739 | "M64.03d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 | ||||
| 11.0 | U+08D3 | 1 | L2/16-044 | Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2015-11-29), Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya with Commentary | |
| L2/15-329 | Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2015-12-02), Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya | ||||
| L2/16-037 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "15. Arabic", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/16-056 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2016-02-16), Proposal to encode Al-Dani Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya | ||||
| L2/16-100 | Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2016-04-27), Comments on L2/16-056 Proposal to encode AlDani Quranic Marks | ||||
| L2/16-102 | Anderson, Deborah (2016-05-01), "#10", Consolidated Comments by Mansour, Evans, and Abudena on Al-Dani Quranic Marks (L2/16-056) | ||||
| L2/16-153 | Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2016-05-04), Types of Quran scripts | ||||
| L2/16-156 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "5. Arabic", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/16-121 | Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "C.10. Arabic", UTC #147 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-268 | Lazrek, Azzeddine (2016-09-26), Suggestions on some Al-Dani Quranic Marks proposition | ||||
| 13.0 | U+08BE..08C2 | 5 | L2/18-032 | N4961 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2018-01-17), Proposal to include Hindko alphabets |
| L2/18-168 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "21. Hindko", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/18-174 | N4962 | Anderson, Deborah; Pournader, Roozbeh (2018-05-02), Hindko additions for Arabic | |||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "C.3.1", UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.12", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| U+08C3..08C4 | 2 | L2/18-094 | N4959 | Evans, Lorna; Warren-Rothlin, Andy (2018-04-26), Proposal to encode additional Arabic script characters for Hausa | |
| L2/18-168 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "19. Arabic for Hausa", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "C.3.3", UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.11", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| U+08C5..08C6 | 2 | L2/19-118R | N5049 | Patel, Neil; Riley, Charles; MacLean, Jesus (2019-03-25), Proposal to add Arabic letter JEEM WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE and JEEM WITH THREE DOTS BELOW | |
| L2/19-173 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-04-29), "ARABIC LETTER JEEM WITH THREE DOTS", Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-122 | Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), "C.9.4", UTC #159 Minutes | ||||
| N5122 | "M68.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 68, 2019-12-31 | ||||
| U+08C7 | 1 | L2/19-111R | Evans, Lorna; Malik, M. G. Abbas (2019-05-01), Proposal to encode ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE in the UCS | ||
| L2/19-173 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-04-29), "ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE", Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-122 | Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), "C.9.3", UTC #159 Minutes | ||||
| 14.0 | U+08B5 | 1 | L2/19-313 | van Putten, Marijn; Pournader, Roozbeh (2019-09-29), Proposal to encode an Arabic qaf with dot below | |
| L2/19-343 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-10-06), "b. Arabic qaf with dot below", Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-323 | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "C.6.2", UTC #161 Minutes | ||||
| U+08C8 | 1 | L2/19-077 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2019-03-03), Proposal to include Balti alphabet | ||
| L2/19-173 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-04-29), "c. Balti", Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-252 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2019-05-28), Proposal to include Balti alphabet ARABIC LETTER GRAF | ||||
| L2/19-286 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-07-22), "6. Arabic", Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-270 | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-07), "C.9.1", UTC #160 Minutes | ||||
| L2/21-069R | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Freytag, Asmus; Chapman, Christopher; Whistler, Ken; Constable, Peter (2021-04-26), "PRI428i: U+08C8 ArabicShaping name", UTC #167 properties feedback & recommendations | ||||
| L2/21-066 | Moore, Lisa (2021-05-05), "Action Item 167-A71", UTC #167 Minutes | ||||
| U+08C9..08D2 | 10 | L2/19-306 | N5142 | Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2019-09-29), Arabic additions for Quranic orthographies | |
| L2/19-343 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-10-06), "a. Additions for Quranic orthographies", Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-323 | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "Consensus 161-C4", UTC #161 Minutes | ||||
| L2/20-105 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-04-20), "3f. Comments on L2/19-306", Recommendations to UTC #163 April 2020 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/20-102 | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Consensus 163-C15", UTC #163 Minutes, The UTC changes the name for U+08D2 from ARABIC ROUND DOT INSIDE LARGE CIRCLE BELOW to ARABIC LARGE ROUND DOT INSIDE CIRCLE BELOW | ||||
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