Arabic Extended-B

For a list of all Arabic characters encoded in Unicode, see Arabic script in Unicode.

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]

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]

Graphical representation of the Arabic Extended-B Unicode block

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

࢏

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:

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
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names