Graphical representation of the Arabic Extended-B Unicode block

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.

Block

Arabic Extended-B[1][2] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+087xࡰࡱࡲࡳࡴࡵࡶࡷࡸࡹࡺࡻࡼࡽࡾࡿ
U+088xࢀࢁࢂࢃࢄࢅࢆࢇ࢈ࢉࢊࢋࢌࢍࢎ࢏
U+089x࢐࢑࢙࢚࢛ࢗ࢘࢜࢝࢞࢟
Notes 1.^As of Unicode version 17.0 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 pointsCountL2IDWG2IDDocument
14.0U+0870..0888, 089D..089F28Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2019-09-29), Arabic additions for Quranic orthographies
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
Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "Consensus 161-C4", UTC #161 Minutes
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..088A2Jacquerye, Denis Moyogo (2019-10-03), Proposal to encode Bosnian Arabic characters
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
Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "C.6.5", UTC #161 Minutes
U+088B..088D3Jacquerye, Denis Moyogo (2019-10-03), Proposal to encode Javanese and Sundanese Arabic characters
Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "C.6.6", UTC #161 Minutes
U+088E1Pournader, Roozbeh; Izadpanah, Borna (2020-05-01), Proposal to encode an Arabic tail character used for abbreviation
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
Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Consensus 163-C26", UTC #163 Minutes
U+0890..08912Hosny, Khaled; Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-09-09), Proposal to encode three Arabic symbols
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
Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C15", UTC #165 Minutes
U+0898..089C5Syarifuddin, M. Mahali (2020-02-28), Proposal to Encode Characters from Indonesian Orthography of Quran
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
Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Consensus 163-C14", UTC #163 Minutes
16.0U+08971Sh., Rikza F. (2022-05-22), Proposal to Encode Four Pegon Characters
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-07-20), "4b Pegon", Recommendations to UTC #172 July 2022 on Script Proposals
Constable, Peter (2022-08-01), "D.1.4b Four Arabic Pegon Characters", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 172
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
17.0U+088F1Evans, Lorna Priest (2024-02-16), Proposal to encode ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH RING ABOVE
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
Constable, Peter (2024-04-29), "4a ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH RING ABOVE", UTC #179 Minutes