# Arabic Extended-B

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.

## Block

Arabic Extended-B 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 | |
| U+089x | ࢐ | ࢑ | | | | | | ࢗ | ࢘ | ࢙ | ࢚ | ࢛ | ࢜ | ࢝ | ࢞ | ࢟ |
| 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 Extended-B block:
| Version | Final code points | 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 |
| 14.0 | U+0870..0888, 089D..089F | 28 | 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 |
| 14.0 | U+0870..0888, 089D..089F | 28 | L2/19-323 | | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "Consensus 161-C4", UTC #161 Minutes |
| 14.0 | U+0870..0888, 089D..089F | 28 | 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 |
| 14.0 | U+0889..088A | 2 | L2/19-339 | | Jacquerye, Denis Moyogo (2019-10-03), Proposal to encode Bosnian Arabic characters |
| 14.0 | U+0889..088A | 2 | 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 |
| 14.0 | U+0889..088A | 2 | L2/19-323 | | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "C.6.5", UTC #161 Minutes |
| 14.0 | U+088B..088D | 3 | L2/19-340 | | Jacquerye, Denis Moyogo (2019-10-03), Proposal to encode Javanese and Sundanese Arabic characters |
| 14.0 | U+088B..088D | 3 | L2/19-323 | | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-01), "C.6.6", UTC #161 Minutes |
| 14.0 | U+088E | 1 | L2/20-071R | | Pournader, Roozbeh; Izadpanah, Borna (2020-05-01), Proposal to encode an Arabic tail character used for abbreviation |
| 14.0 | U+088E | 1 | 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 |
| 14.0 | U+088E | 1 | L2/20-102 | | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Consensus 163-C26", UTC #163 Minutes |
| 14.0 | U+0890..0891 | 2 | L2/20-245 | | Hosny, Khaled; Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-09-09), Proposal to encode three Arabic symbols |
| 14.0 | U+0890..0891 | 2 | 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 |
| 14.0 | U+0890..0891 | 2 | L2/20-237 | | Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), "Consensus 165-C15", UTC #165 Minutes |
| 14.0 | U+0898..089C | 5 | L2/20-089 | | Syarifuddin, M. Mahali (2020-02-28), Proposal to Encode Characters from Indonesian Orthography of Quran |
| 14.0 | U+0898..089C | 5 | 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 |
| 14.0 | U+0898..089C | 5 | 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 |
| 16.0 | U+0897 | 1 | 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 |
| 16.0 | U+0897 | 1 | L2/22-121 | | Constable, Peter (2022-08-01), "D.1.4b Four Arabic Pegon Characters", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 172 |
| 16.0 | U+0897 | 1 | 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 |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||