Arabic Extended-B

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]

For a list of all Arabic characters encoded in Unicode, see Arabic script in Unicode.
Arabic Extended-B
RangeU+0870..U+089F
(48 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsArabic
Major alphabetsBosnian
Javanese
Malagasy
Sundanese
Assigned41 code points
Unused7 reserved code points
Unicode version history
14.0 (2021)41 (+41)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block
Arabic Extended-B[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
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
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
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:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
14.0U+0870..0888, 089D..089F28L2/19-306N5142Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2019-09-29), Arabic additions for Quranic orthographies
L2/19-343Anderson, 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
L2/19-323Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "Consensus 161-C4", UTC #161 Minutes
L2/20-105Anderson, 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..088A2L2/19-339Jacquerye, Denis Moyogo (2019-10-03), Proposal to encode Bosnian Arabic characters
L2/19-343Anderson, 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
L2/19-323Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "C.6.5", UTC #161 Minutes
U+088B..088D3L2/19-340Jacquerye, Denis Moyogo (2019-10-03), Proposal to encode Javanese and Sundanese Arabic characters
L2/19-323Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "C.6.6", UTC #161 Minutes
U+088E1L2/20-071RPournader, Roozbeh; Izadpanah, Borna (2020-05-01), Proposal to encode an Arabic tail character used for abbreviation
L2/20-105Anderson, 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
L2/20-102Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Consensus 163-C26", UTC #163 Minutes
U+0890..08912L2/20-245Hosny, Khaled; Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-09-09), Proposal to encode three Arabic symbols
L2/20-250Anderson, 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
L2/20-237Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C15", UTC #165 Minutes
U+0898..089C5L2/20-089Syarifuddin, M. Mahali (2020-02-28), Proposal to Encode Characters from Indonesian Orthography of Quran
L2/20-105Anderson, 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
L2/20-102Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Consensus 163-C14", UTC #163 Minutes
  1. 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.
  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
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