Arabic Presentation Forms-B

See also: Arabic Presentation Forms-A (Unicode block), Alphabetic Presentation Forms (Unicode block), and Specials (Unicode block)

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

Arabic Presentation Forms-B is a Unicode block encoding spacing forms of Arabic diacritics, and contextual letter forms. The special codepoint ZWNBSP (zero width no-break space) is also here, which is only meant for a byte order mark (that may precede text, Arabic or not, or be absent).^{[note 1]} The block name in Unicode 1.0 was Basic Glyphs for Arabic Language;^[5] its characters were re-ordered in the process of merging with ISO 10646 in Unicode 1.0.1 and 1.1.^[3]

Arabic Presentation Forms-B
Range	U+FE70..U+FEFF (144 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Arabic (140 char.) Common (1 char.)
Symbol sets	contextual and isolate forms of Arabic letters and points
Assigned	141 code points
Unused	3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)	140 (+140)
3.2 (2002)	141 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2] The characters in this block were re-ordered in Unicode 1.0.1, in the process of merging with ISO/IEC 10646.[3]

The presentation forms are present only for compatibility with older standards, and are not currently needed for coding text.^[6]

Block

Arabic Presentation Forms-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+FE7x

ﹰ

ﹱ

ﹲ

ﹳ

ﹴ

ﹶ

ﹷ

ﹸ

ﹹ

ﹺ

ﹻ

ﹼ

ﹽ

ﹾ

ﹿ

U+FE8x

ﺀ

ﺁ

ﺂ

ﺃ

ﺄ

ﺅ

ﺆ

ﺇ

ﺈ

ﺉ

ﺊ

ﺋ

ﺌ

ﺍ

ﺎ

ﺏ

U+FE9x

ﺐ

ﺑ

ﺒ

ﺓ

ﺔ

ﺕ

ﺖ

ﺗ

ﺘ

ﺙ

ﺚ

ﺛ

ﺜ

ﺝ

ﺞ

ﺟ

U+FEAx

ﺠ

ﺡ

ﺢ

ﺣ

ﺤ

ﺥ

ﺦ

ﺧ

ﺨ

ﺩ

ﺪ

ﺫ

ﺬ

ﺭ

ﺮ

ﺯ

U+FEBx

ﺰ

ﺱ

ﺲ

ﺳ

ﺴ

ﺵ

ﺶ

ﺷ

ﺸ

ﺹ

ﺺ

ﺻ

ﺼ

ﺽ

ﺾ

ﺿ

U+FECx

ﻀ

ﻁ

ﻂ

ﻃ

ﻄ

ﻅ

ﻆ

ﻇ

ﻈ

ﻉ

ﻊ

ﻋ

ﻌ

ﻍ

ﻎ

ﻏ

U+FEDx

ﻐ

ﻑ

ﻒ

ﻓ

ﻔ

ﻕ

ﻖ

ﻗ

ﻘ

ﻙ

ﻚ

ﻛ

ﻜ

ﻝ

ﻞ

ﻟ

U+FEEx

ﻠ

ﻡ

ﻢ

ﻣ

ﻤ

ﻥ

ﻦ

ﻧ

ﻨ

ﻩ

ﻪ

ﻫ

ﻬ

ﻭ

ﻮ

ﻯ

U+FEFx

ﻰ

ﻱ

ﻲ

ﻳ

ﻴ

ﻵ

ﻶ

ﻷ

ﻸ

ﻹ

ﻺ

ﻻ

ﻼ

ZW NBSP

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 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 Presentation Forms-B block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U+FE70..FE72, FE74, FE76..FE7F	14	UTC/1991-048B			Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "14 addtional [sic] Arabic spacing diacritics", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
	U+FE80..FEFC	125				(to be determined)
	U+FEFF	1	UTC/1991-054			Whistler, Ken, FF Proposal
			UTC/1991-048B			Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III.I.4", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
				L2/05-137		Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-10), Handling "defective" names
				L2/05-108R		Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Consensus 103-C7", UTC #103 Minutes, Create a "Normative Name Alias" property and file in the UCD. Populate the property with names from the sections "Typos" and "Bad or misleading names" from document L2/05-137.
3.2	U+FE73	1		L2/01-069		Davis, Mark (2001-01-29), Proposal Summary Form for Arabic character tail for final Seen family (Seen, Sheen, Saad, Daad)
				L2/01-095	N2322	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-02-05), Proposal to add "Arabic Tail Fragment" character
				L2/01-012R		Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), "Motion 86-M30", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001, Accept the addition of the character ARABIC TAIL FRAGMENT at U+FE73, with the properties of an extender.
				L2/01-344	N2353 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "7.9", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names