Arabic Extended-A
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| Arabic Extended-A | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+08A0..U+08FF (96 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Arabic (95 char.) Common (1 char.) |
| Major alphabets | African languages Bashkir Belarusian Berber Chechen Crimean Tatar Hindko Lak Philippine languages Punjabi Rohingya Tatar Arwi |
| Assigned | 96 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.1 (2012) | 39 (+39) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 47 (+8) |
| 8.0 (2015) | 50 (+3) |
| 9.0 (2016) | 73 (+23) |
| 11.0 (2018) | 74 (+1) |
| 13.0 (2020) | 84 (+10) |
| 14.0 (2021) | 96 (+12) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Arabic Extended-A is a Unicode block encoding Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages.[3]
Block
[edit]| Arabic Extended-A[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+08Ax | ࢠ | ࢡ | ࢢ | ࢣ | ࢤ | ࢥ | ࢦ | ࢧ | ࢨ | ࢩ | ࢪ | ࢫ | ࢬ | ࢭ | ࢮ | ࢯ |
| U+08Bx | ࢰ | ࢱ | ࢲ | ࢳ | ࢴ | ࢵ | ࢶ | ࢷ | ࢸ | ࢹ | ࢺ | ࢻ | ࢼ | ࢽ | ࢾ | ࢿ |
| U+08Cx | ࣀ | ࣁ | ࣂ | ࣃ | ࣄ | ࣅ | ࣆ | ࣇ | ࣈ | ࣉ | ࣊ | ࣋ | ࣌ | ࣍ | ࣎ | ࣏ |
| U+08Dx | ࣐ | ࣑ | ࣒ | ࣓ | ࣔ | ࣕ | ࣖ | ࣗ | ࣘ | ࣙ | ࣚ | ࣛ | ࣜ | ࣝ | ࣞ | ࣟ |
| U+08Ex | ࣠ | ࣡ | | ࣣ | ࣤ | ࣥ | ࣦ | ࣧ | ࣨ | ࣩ | ࣪ | ࣫ | ࣬ | ࣭ | ࣮ | ࣯ |
| U+08Fx | ࣰ | ࣱ | ࣲ | ࣳ | ࣴ | ࣵ | ࣶ | ࣷ | ࣸ | ࣹ | ࣺ | ࣻ | ࣼ | ࣽ | ࣾ | ࣿ |
Notes
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History
[edit]The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic Extended-A block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | U+08A0, 08A2..08AC, 08E4..08EF, 08F4..08FE | 35 | L2/10-288R | N3882 | Priest, Lorna; Hosken, Martin (2010-08-12), Proposal to add Arabic script characters for African and Asian languages |
| L2/10-221 | Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "C.11.2", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes | ||||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| U+08F0..08F3 | 4 | L2/01-325 | Milo, Thomas (2001-08-14), Three kinds of variation in Arabic script (sukun and jazm) | ||
| L2/02-275 | Kew, Jonathan (2002-08-02), Proposal for Koranic alternate marks | ||||
| L2/09-335R | Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "C.31", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes | ||||
| L2/10-094 | N3816 | King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex (2010-03-21), Proposal to change some combining Arabic characters for Quranic representation | |||
| L2/09-419R | N3791 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2010-03-30), Proposal to encode four combining Arabic characters for Koranic use | |||
| L2/10-155 | Schmitt, Arno; Hosny, Khaled (2010-05-03), Reservations on L2/09-419 proposal | ||||
| L2/10-221 | Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "C.11.1", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes | ||||
| N3803 (pdf, doc) | "M56.08j", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24 | ||||
| L2/10-371 | N3920 | Lazrek, Azzeddine (2010-09-30), Comments on Resolutions from Meeting 56 (and the 3rd edition) concerning Koranic characters | |||
| 7.0 | U+08A1 | 1 | L2/10-288R | N3882 | Priest, Lorna; Hosken, Martin (2010-08-12), Proposal to add Arabic script characters for African and Asian languages |
| L2/10-442R | N3988 | Priest, Lorna; Hosken, Martin (2010-10-29), Proposal to add ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE | |||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| N4103 | "11.2.6 Arabic Letter BEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| U+08AD..08B1 | 5 | L2/11-138 | Yevlampiev, Ilya; Pentzlin, Karl; Joomagueldinov, Nurlan (2011-04-28), Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, Karachay, Karakalpak, and Tatar languages | ||
| L2/11-190 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-12), Proposed codepoints and properties for characters in L2/11-138 | ||||
| L2/11-201 | N4065 | Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2011-05-12), Proposed codepoints and properties for characters in "Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, Karachay, Karakalpak, and Tatar languages" | |||
| L2/11-116 | Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "C.17.1.1", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes | ||||
| L2/11-209 | N4071, N4072 | Yevlampiev, Ilya; Pentzlin, Karl; Joomagueldinov, Nurlan (2011-05-20), Revised Proposal to encode Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, and Tatar languages | |||
| N4103 | "11.12 Arabic characters used for Bashkir, Belarusian, Crimean Tatar, and Tatar languages", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| U+08B2 | 1 | L2/12-181R | N4271 | Priest, Lorna A. (2012-05-09), Proposal to add ARABIC LETTER ZAIN WITH INVERTED V ABOVE | |
| L2/12-112 | Moore, Lisa (2012-05-17), "C.19", UTC #131 / L2 #228 Minutes | ||||
| U+08FF | 1 | L2/11-033R | N3989 | Priest, Lorna (2011-02-10), Proposal to add Arabic Mark Sideways Noon Ghunna | |
| L2/11-016 | Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "C.2.2", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes | ||||
| N4103 | "11.2.5 Arabic Mark SIDEWAYS NOON GHUNNA", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| 8.0 | U+08B3..08B4, 08E3 | 3 | L2/08-429 | Buhari, Seyed (2008-12-04), Additional Arabic letters needed for Arwi Script | |
| L2/09-143 | Buhari, Seyed (2009-04-15), Additional Arabic letters needed for Arwi Script | ||||
| L2/13-165 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-07-25), "2", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/13-132 | Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C22", UTC #136 Minutes | ||||
| L2/13-168 | Ganesan, Naga (2013-07-29), Comment on L2/13-130: Writing classical Tamil in Arabic script | ||||
| L2/13-130R | N4474 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-08-19), Proposal to encode three Arabic characters for Arwi | |||
| N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.04a", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA | ||||
| L2/22-221 | Nasrullah, Febri Muhammad (2022-09-11), On ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH DOT BELOW [Affects U+08B4] | ||||
| L2/22-248 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2022-10-31), "3 Arabic", Recommendations to UTC #173 October 2022 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/22-241 | Constable, Peter (2022-11-09), "D.1.5 Arabic: Kaf with dot below", Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 173, Add an annotation to U+08B4 | ||||
| 9.0 | U+08B6..08BA | 5 | L2/13-178 | Banafunzi, Hamid; Banafunzi, Marghani; Nuur, Maxamed (2013-08-31), Proposal to encode five Arabic script characters for the Bravanese (Chimiini) | |
| L2/13-210 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-10-31), "4", Recommendations to UTC #137 November 2013 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/13-223R | N4498 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-11-06), Proposal to encode four Arabic characters for Bravanese | |||
| L2/13-200 | Moore, Lisa (2013-11-18), "C.3.1.1", UTC #137 Minutes | ||||
| N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.09c, M62.09i", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA | ||||
| L2/14-293R | Pournader, Roozbeh; Afshar, Shervin (2014-11-01), Proposal to Encode Arabic Letter Teh with Small Teh Above for Bravanese | ||||
| L2/14-250 | Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), "C.3.3", UTC #141 Minutes | ||||
| U+08BB..08BD | 3 | L2/14-104 | Evans, Lorna (2014-04-29), Supporting the Warsh orthography for Arabic script | ||
| L2/14-129 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-05-02), "8", Recommendations to UTC #139 May 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/14-170 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), "18", Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/14-207R | Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-08-09), Implications of the Unicode Arabic model for the Warsh orthography | ||||
| L2/14-211 | N4597 | Evans, Lorna (2014-08-15), Proposal to encode Warsh-based Arabic script characters | |||
| L2/14-177 | Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "Warsh Orthography (C.3.2)", UTC #140 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.03h", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 | |||
| U+08D4 | 1 | L2/14-148 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2014-06-26), Proposal to encode Quranic mark Ar-Rbaa used in Quran published in Pakistan | ||
| L2/14-170 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), "7", Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| N4592 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2014-08-11), Proposal to encode Quranic mark Ar-Rub used in Quran published in Pakistan | ||||
| L2/14-177 | Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "Quranic mark Ar-Rbaa (C.3.1.1)", UTC #140 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.03g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 | |||
| U+08D5..08E2 | 14 | L2/14-095 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2014-04-24), Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Pakistan | ||
| L2/14-129 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-05-02), "7", Recommendations to UTC #139 May 2014 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/14-100 | Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), "C.3.1.3", UTC #139 Minutes | ||||
| L2/14-105R | N4589 | Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-07-27), Proposal to encode fourteen Pakistani Quranic marks | |||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.02b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 | |||
| L2/15-254 | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C16", UTC #145 Minutes, Change the name of U+08E2 to ARABIC DISPUTED END OF AYAH | ||||
| N4739 | "M64.03d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 | ||||
| 11.0 | U+08D3 | 1 | L2/16-044 | Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2015-11-29), Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya with Commentary | |
| L2/15-329 | Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2015-12-02), Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya | ||||
| L2/16-037 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "15. Arabic", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/16-056 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2016-02-16), Proposal to encode Al-Dani Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya | ||||
| L2/16-100 | Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2016-04-27), Comments on L2/16-056 Proposal to encode AlDani Quranic Marks | ||||
| L2/16-102 | Anderson, Deborah (2016-05-01), "#10", Consolidated Comments by Mansour, Evans, and Abudena on Al-Dani Quranic Marks (L2/16-056) | ||||
| L2/16-153 | Abudena, Mussa A. A. (2016-05-04), Types of Quran scripts | ||||
| L2/16-156 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "5. Arabic", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/16-121 | Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "C.10. Arabic", UTC #147 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-268 | Lazrek, Azzeddine (2016-09-26), Suggestions on some Al-Dani Quranic Marks proposition | ||||
| 13.0 | U+08BE..08C2 | 5 | L2/18-032 | N4961 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2018-01-17), Proposal to include Hindko alphabets |
| L2/18-168 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "21. Hindko", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/18-174 | N4962 | Anderson, Deborah; Pournader, Roozbeh (2018-05-02), Hindko additions for Arabic | |||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "C.3.1", UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.12", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| U+08C3..08C4 | 2 | L2/18-094 | N4959 | Evans, Lorna; Warren-Rothlin, Andy (2018-04-26), Proposal to encode additional Arabic script characters for Hausa | |
| L2/18-168 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Chapman, Chris; Cook, Richard (2018-04-28), "19. Arabic for Hausa", Recommendations to UTC #155 April-May 2018 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "C.3.3", UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.11", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| U+08C5..08C6 | 2 | L2/19-118R | N5049 | Patel, Neil; Riley, Charles; MacLean, Jesus (2019-03-25), Proposal to add Arabic letter JEEM WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE and JEEM WITH THREE DOTS BELOW | |
| L2/19-173 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-04-29), "ARABIC LETTER JEEM WITH THREE DOTS", Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-122 | Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), "C.9.4", UTC #159 Minutes | ||||
| N5122 | "M68.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 68, 2019-12-31 | ||||
| U+08C7 | 1 | L2/19-111R | Evans, Lorna; Malik, M. G. Abbas (2019-05-01), Proposal to encode ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE in the UCS | ||
| L2/19-173 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-04-29), "ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE", Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-122 | Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), "C.9.3", UTC #159 Minutes | ||||
| 14.0 | U+08B5 | 1 | L2/19-313 | van Putten, Marijn; Pournader, Roozbeh (2019-09-29), Proposal to encode an Arabic qaf with dot below | |
| L2/19-343 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-10-06), "b. Arabic qaf with dot below", Recommendations to UTC #161 October 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-323 | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "C.6.2", UTC #161 Minutes | ||||
| U+08C8 | 1 | L2/19-077 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2019-03-03), Proposal to include Balti alphabet | ||
| L2/19-173 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-04-29), "c. Balti", Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-252 | Shaikh, Lateef Sagar (2019-05-28), Proposal to include Balti alphabet ARABIC LETTER GRAF | ||||
| L2/19-286 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-07-22), "6. Arabic", Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/19-270 | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-07), "C.9.1", UTC #160 Minutes | ||||
| L2/21-069R | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Freytag, Asmus; Chapman, Christopher; Whistler, Ken; Constable, Peter (2021-04-26), "PRI428i: U+08C8 ArabicShaping name", UTC #167 properties feedback & recommendations | ||||
| L2/21-066 | Moore, Lisa (2021-05-05), "Action Item 167-A71", UTC #167 Minutes | ||||
| U+08C9..08D2 | 10 | 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 | ||||
| L2/20-102 | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Consensus 163-C15", UTC #163 Minutes, The UTC changes the name for U+08D2 from ARABIC ROUND DOT INSIDE LARGE CIRCLE BELOW to ARABIC LARGE ROUND DOT INSIDE CIRCLE BELOW | ||||
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References
[edit]- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0.0, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. ISBN 978-1-936213-01-6), Chapter 8
External links
[edit]- Scheherazade, an extended Arabic script font designed by SIL International, distributed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL)
- Harmattan, an extended Arabic script font designed by SIL International for West Africa, distributed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL)