Arabic Extended-B
Unicode character block
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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]
RangeU+0870..U+089F
(48 code points)
(48 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsArabic
Major alphabetsBosnian
Javanese
Sorabe
Sundanese
Javanese
Sorabe
Sundanese
| Arabic Extended-B | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+0870..U+089F (48 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Arabic |
| Major alphabets | Bosnian Javanese Sorabe Sundanese |
| Assigned | 43 code points |
| Unused | 5 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] | |
Block
| Arabic Extended-B[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+087x | ࡰ | ࡱ | ࡲ | ࡳ | ࡴ | ࡵ | ࡶ | ࡷ | ࡸ | ࡹ | ࡺ | ࡻ | ࡼ | ࡽ | ࡾ | ࡿ |
| U+088x | ࢀ | ࢁ | ࢂ | ࢃ | ࢄ | ࢅ | ࢆ | ࢇ | ࢈ | ࢉ | ࢊ | ࢋ | ࢌ | ࢍ | ࢎ | |
| U+089x | | | | ࢘ | ࢙ | ࢚ | ࢛ | ࢜ | ࢝ | ࢞ | ࢟ | |||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic Extended-B block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14.0 | U+0870..0888, 089D..089F | 28 | 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 | ||||
| U+0889..088A | 2 | L2/19-339 | Jacquerye, Denis Moyogo (2019-10-03), Proposal to encode Bosnian Arabic characters | ||
| L2/19-343 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-10-06), "d. Bosnian Arabic characters", Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-323 | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "C.6.5", UTC #161 Minutes | ||||
| U+088B..088D | 3 | L2/19-340 | Jacquerye, Denis Moyogo (2019-10-03), Proposal to encode Javanese and Sundanese Arabic characters | ||
| L2/19-323 | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "C.6.6", UTC #161 Minutes | ||||
| U+088E | 1 | L2/20-071R | Pournader, Roozbeh; Izadpanah, Borna (2020-05-01), Proposal to encode an Arabic tail character used for abbreviation | ||
| L2/20-105 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-04-20), "3b. Arabic Tail Character", Recommendations to UTC #163 April 2020 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/20-102 | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Consensus 163-C26", UTC #163 Minutes | ||||
| U+0890..0891 | 2 | L2/20-245 | Hosny, Khaled; Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-09-09), Proposal to encode three Arabic symbols | ||
| L2/20-250 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), "5a. Three Symbols", Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/20-237 | Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C15", UTC #165 Minutes | ||||
| U+0898..089C | 5 | L2/20-089 | Syarifuddin, M. Mahali (2020-02-28), Proposal to Encode Characters from Indonesian Orthography of Quran | ||
| L2/20-105 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-04-20), "3c. Indonesian Orthography of Quran", Recommendations to UTC #163 April 2020 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/20-102 | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Consensus 163-C14", UTC #163 Minutes | ||||
| 16.0 | U+0897 | 1 | L2/22-116 | Sh., Rikza F. (2022-05-22), Proposal to Encode Four Pegon Characters | |
| L2/22-128 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-07-20), "4b Pegon", Recommendations to UTC #172 July 2022 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/22-121 | Constable, Peter (2022-08-01), "D.1.4b Four Arabic Pegon Characters", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 172 | ||||
| L2/23-157 | Constable, Peter (2023-07-31), "Consensus 176-C17", UTC #176 Minutes, The UTC approves the change of canonical combining class for U+0897 ARABIC PEPET to ccc=230, from ccc=0 | ||||
| 17.0 | U+088F | 1 | L2/24-046 | Evans, Lorna Priest (2024-02-16), Proposal to encode ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH RING ABOVE | |
| L2/24-068 | Anderson, Deborah; Goregaokar, Manish; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2024-04-18), "4a", Recommendations to UTC #179 April 2024 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/24-061 | Constable, Peter (2024-04-29), "4a ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH RING ABOVE", UTC #179 Minutes | ||||
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