Arabic

Range: 0600—06FF Quantity of characters: 256

Subtending marks

Supertending mark

Radix symbols

Letterlike symbol

Punctuation

Currency symbol

Punctuation

Poetic marks

Honorifics

Quranic annotation sign

Extended Arabic mark

Quranic annotation signs

Punctuation

Format character

Punctuation

Addition for Kashmiri

Based on ISO 8859-6

Additions for early Persian and Azerbaijani

Based on ISO 8859-6

Tashkil from ISO 8859-6

Combining maddah and hamza

Other combining marks

Arabic-Indic digits

Punctuation

Archaic letters

Tashkil

Extended Arabic letters

Deprecated letter

Extended Arabic letters

Punctuation

Extended Arabic letter

Quranic annotation signs

Extended Arabic letters for Parkari

Eastern Arabic-Indic digits

Extended Arabic letters

Signs for Sindhi

Extended Arabic letter for Parkari

Arabic is a Unicode block, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the Arabic script, and the Arabic-Indic digits.

The Arabic script is a writing system used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa, such as Arabic, the Sorani and Luri dialects of Kurdish, Persian, Pashto, and Urdu. Even until the 16th century, it was used to write some texts in Spanish. After the Latin 0000–007F script, Chinese characters 4E00–9FFF , and Devanagari 0900–097F , it is the fourth-most widely used writing system in the world. The Arabic script is written from right to left in a cursive style. In most cases the letters transcribe consonants, or consonants and a few vowels, so most Arabic alphabets are abjads. The script was first used to write texts in Arabic, most notably the Qurʼān, the holy book of Islam. With the spread of Islam, it came to be used to write languages of many language families, leading to the addition of new letters and other symbols, with some versions, such as Kurdish, Uyghur, and old Bosnian being abugidas or true alphabets. It is also the basis for a rich tradition of Arabic calligraphy.