Arabic (Unicode block)
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| blockname | Arabic |
| rangestart | 0600 |
| rangeend | 06FF |
| script1 | Arabic (238 char.) |
| script2 | Common (6 char.) |
| script3 | Inherited (12 char.) |
| alphabets | Arabic |
| Kashmiri | |
| Kurdish | |
| Pashto | |
| Persian | |
| Punjabi | |
| Sindhi | |
| Urdu | |
| sources | ISO 8859-6 |
| deprecated | 1 |
| 1_0_0 | 169 |
| 1_1 | 25 |
| 3_0 | 12 |
| 3_2 | 2 |
| 4_0 | 19 |
| 4_1 | 8 |
| 5_1 | 15 |
| 6_0 | 2 |
| 6_1 | 1 |
| 6_3 | 1 |
| 7_0 | 1 |
| 14_0 | 1 |
| note | |
| :: |
|blockname = Arabic |rangestart = 0600 |rangeend = 06FF |script1 = Arabic (238 char.) |script2 = Common (6 char.) |script3 = Inherited (12 char.) |alphabets = Arabic Kashmiri Kurdish Pashto Persian Punjabi Sindhi Urdu |sources = ISO 8859-6 |deprecated = 1 |1_0_0 = 169 |1_1 = 25 |3_0 = 12 |3_2 = 2 |4_0 = 19 |4_1 = 8 |5_1 = 15 |6_0 = 2 |6_1 = 1 |6_3 = 1 |7_0 = 1 |14_0 = 1 |note = FORCETOC ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/UCB_Arabic.png" caption="Graphical representation of the Arabic Unicode block" alt="Arabic is a Unicode block"] ::
Arabic is a Unicode block, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the Arabic script, and the Arabic-Indic digits.
Unicode chart
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic block:
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| Version | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+060C, 061B, 061F, 0621..063A, 0640..0652, 0660..066C, 0670..06B7, 06BA..06BE, 06C0..06CE, 06D0..06D5, 06F0..06F9 | 169 | ||
| N4066 | ||||
| N4067 | ||||
| N4113 | ||||
| N4103 | ||||
| N4218 | ||||
| N4231 | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| N4463 | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| N5155 | ||||
| N5160 | ||||
| N5162 | ||||
| 1.1 | U+066D, 06D6..06ED | 25 | ||
| N2956 | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| 3.0 | U+0653..0655 | 3 | ||
| N1718 | ||||
| N1703 | ||||
| N1837, | ||||
| N1907 | ||||
| N1906 | ||||
| html, doc) | ||||
| U+06B8..06B9, 06BF, 06CF, 06FA..06FE | 9 | N1573 | ||
| N1603 | ||||
| N1681 | ||||
| N1894 | ||||
| 3.2 | U+066E..066F | 2 | ||
| N2357 | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| 4.0 | U+0600..0602, 060D..060E, 0610..0614, 0656..0658 | 13 | ||
| N2483 | ||||
| N2482 | ||||
| N2487 | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| U+0603, 060F, 0615 | 3 | |||
| doc) | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| U+06EE..06EF, 06FF | 3 | N2481 | ||
| N2487 | ||||
| 4.1 | U+060B | 1 | N2523 | |
| N2640 | ||||
| U+061E, 065A..065C | 4 | |||
| doc) | ||||
| N2598 | ||||
| U+0659 | 1 | N2581R2 | ||
| U+065D..065E | 2 | N2723 | ||
| 5.1 | U+0606..060A | 5 | ||
| N3086 | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| U+0616, 063B..063F | 6 | N3180R | ||
| doc) | ||||
| U+0617..061A | 4 | N3185R | ||
| doc) | ||||
| 6.0 | U+0620, 065F | 2 | ||
| doc) | ||||
| N3673 | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| 6.1 | U+0604 | 1 | ||
| N3734 | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| 6.3 | U+061C | 1 | ||
| N4181 | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| 7.0 | U+0605 | 1 | ||
| N3786 | ||||
| N3843R | ||||
| N3958R | ||||
| N3990 | ||||
| doc) | ||||
| N4103 | ||||
| 14.0 | U+061D | 1 | ||
| :: |
References
References
- "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard.
- "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard.
- The Unicode Consortium. [https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/ The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.0] {{Webarchive. link. (2022-03-06 , (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. {{ISBN). 978-1-936213-01-6), [https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/ch08.pdf Chapter 8] {{Webarchive. link. (2018-05-22)
- Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
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