Arabic Extended-A is a Unicode block encoding Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages.[3]

Arabic Extended-A
RangeU+08A0..U+08FF
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsArabic (95 char.)
Common (1 char.)
Major alphabetsAfrican languages
Bashkir
Belarusian
Berber
Chechen
Crimean Tatar
Hindko
Lak
Philippine languages
Punjabi
Rohingya
Tatar
Arwi
Assigned96 code points
Unused0 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]

Block

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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
U+08Bx
U+08Cx
U+08Dx
U+08Ex  ࣢ 
U+08Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

History

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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic Extended-A block:

References

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  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 6.0.0, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2011. ISBN 978-1-936213-01-6), Chapter 8
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