# Arabic Supplement

Arabic Supplement is a Unicode block that encodes Arabic letter variants used for writing non-Arabic languages, including languages of Pakistan and Africa, and old Persian.

## Block

Arabic Supplement Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+075x | ݐ | ݑ | ݒ | ݓ | ݔ | ݕ | ݖ | ݗ | ݘ | ݙ | ݚ | ݛ | ݜ | ݝ | ݞ | ݟ |
| U+076x | ݠ | ݡ | ݢ | ݣ | ݤ | ݥ | ݦ | ݧ | ݨ | ݩ | ݪ | ݫ | ݬ | ݭ | ݮ | ݯ |
| U+077x | ݰ | ݱ | ݲ | ݳ | ݴ | ݵ | ݶ | ݷ | ݸ | ݹ | ݺ | ݻ | ݼ | ݽ | ݾ | ݿ |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 |||||||||||||||||

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Arabic Supplement block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 4.1 | U+0750..0769 | 26 | L2/02-274 | | Kew, Jonathan (2002-07-16), Proposal for extensions to the Arabic block |
| 4.1 | U+0750..0769 | 26 | L2/03-168 | | Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-02), Proposal to encode Arabic-script letters for African languages |
| 4.1 | U+0750..0769 | 26 | L2/03-176 | | Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-03), Proposal to encode Jawi and Moroccan Arabic GAF characters |
| 4.1 | U+0750..0769 | 26 | L2/03-210 | | Kew, Jonathan (2003-06-12), Draft chart showing UTC #95 additions to Arabic blocks |
| 4.1 | U+0750..0769 | 26 | L2/03-223 | N2598 | Kew, Jonathan (2003-07-10), Proposal to encode additional Arabic-script characters |
| 4.1 | U+076A | 1 | L2/03-228R2 | N2627 | Kew, Jonathan (2003-09-29), Proposal to encode Marwari LAM WITH BAR Character |
| 4.1 | U+076A | 1 | L2/03-240R3 | | Moore, Lisa (2003-10-21), "Marwari Lam with Bar (B.14.6)", UTC #96 Minutes |
| 4.1 | U+076B..076D | 3 | L2/04-025R | N2723 | Kew, Jonathan (2004-03-15), Proposal to encode Additional Arabic script characters |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | | N3117 | Bashir, Elena; Hussain, Sarmad; Anderson, Deborah (2006-07-27), Proposal to add characters needed for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | L2/06-150 | | Bashir, Elena (2006-05-05), Letters of support for characters needed for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | L2/06-149 | | Bashir, Elena; Hussain, Sarmad; Anderson, Deborah (2006-05-09), Proposal to add characters needed for Khowar, Torwali, and Burushaski |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | L2/06-108 | | Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "C.18", UTC #107 Minutes |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | | N3153 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.8", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29 |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | L2/06-328 | | Pournader, Roozbeh (2006-10-11), Proposal to change the previously decided name of some Arabic characters |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | L2/06-324R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "Consensus 109-C27", UTC #109 Minutes |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.4e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27, Names of characters in the range 0773 to 077D are changed by replacing the word 'EASTERN' with 'EXTENDED' in them. |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | L2/07-264 | | Anderson, Deborah (2007-08-06), Shaping behavior of Burushaski characters and other Arabic additions in L2/06-149 |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | L2/07-225 | | Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), "Burushaski Shaping Behavior", UTC #112 Minutes |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | L2/10-158 | | Mansour, Kamal (2010-05-04), Shaping Behavior of U+0777 |
| 5.1 | U+076E..077D | 16 | L2/10-108 | | Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Action item 123-A50", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, Suggest clarifying text in section 8.2 of TUS 5.2 pp 248-249 regarding Yeh and Farsi Yeh joining groups. |
| 5.1 | U+077E..077F | 2 | L2/06-345R | N3180R | Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh; Sarbar, Elnaz (2006-10-24), Proposal to encode eight Arabic characters for Persian and Azerbaijani in the UCS |
| 5.1 | U+077E..077F | 2 | L2/06-324R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "C.12", UTC #109 Minutes |
| 5.1 | U+077E..077F | 2 | L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||