These characters are used with Arabic, with Arabic Extended-A, with Arabic Presentation Forms-A and with Arabic Supplement. You can find some real (non-Unicode) Arabic text to try at Arabic2000.Com and the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram. You can read the Sonnets of Hafez in Unicode Persian and see some Unicode Arabic in the FAQ for the Ayna Arabic search engine and the What is Unicode? in Arabic page. You can see some Unicode Urdu on the Ghazal Web page.
Users of Internet Explorer 5 for Windows can choose to install Arabic Language Support, which allows you to view Arabic Web pages and adds Arabic support to some other applications. The latest versions of Microsoft’s core fonts for Windows (Arial, Courier New and Times New Roman) include Arabic characters.
Users of Macintosh computers running Mac OS 9 can install an Apple Language Kit that provides Arabic or Persian support in various applications.
Mac OS X incorporates support for Arabic from version 10.2 onwards.
The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Aleem Urdu Unicode, Andalus, Arabic Transparent, Arabic Typesetting, Arial, Arial Unicode MS, Art (Bold Italic, Italic Outline), Courier New, Chrysanthi Unicode, CN-Arial, CN-Times, Code2000, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Sans Mono, Diwani (Bent, Letter, Outline Shaded, Simple Outline, Simple Outline2, Simple Striped), Farsi Simple (Bold, Outline), Fixedsys Excelsior, Free Idg Serif, GlobalScience, Goher Urdu Unicode, Kurdish AllAlphabets, Led Italic Font, Lucida Bright, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Typewriter, MD King KhammuRabi, Microsoft Sans Serif, Microsoft Uighur, MPH 2B Damase, Nastaleeq Like, Nesf2, NSimSun-18030, Old Antic (Bold, Decorative, Outline, Outline Shaded), PakType Naqsh, PakType Tehreer, Pashto Kror Asiatype, _PDMS_Saleem_QuranFont, PT (Bold Arch, Bold Broken, Bold Dusky, Bold Heading, Bold Mirror, Bold Stars, Separated Balloon, Simple Bold Ruled), Samda, Segoe UI, Simple (Bold Jut Out, Indust Outline, Indust Shaded, Outline Pat), Simplified Arabic, Simplified Arabic Fixed, SimSun-18030, Sun-ExtA, Tahoma, Times New Roman, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Traditional Arabic, Unikurd Tishk, Unikurd Web, Urdu Naskh Asiatype, Urdu Naskh Unicode, Urdu Nastaliq Unicode, Zawgyi-One and zkurd ali.M; in the Macintosh OS 9 Unicode fonts AB AlBayan, AB Baghdad, AB Geeza, AB Kufi, AB Nadeem, DecoType Naskh, PS Amir, PS Asfahan, PS Kamran, PS Mashad, PS NadeemFarsi and Tahoma; and in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts Al Bayan, Arial, Baghdad, DecoType Naskh, Geeza Pro, Geezah, KufiStandardGK, Nadeem, STFangsong, STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong and Times New Roman.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or Apple’s TrueEdit.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE70.pdf.
Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
---|---|---|---|---|
ﹰ | 65136 | ﹰ | FE70 | ARABIC FATHATAN ISOLATED FORM |
ﹱ | 65137 | ﹱ | FE71 | ARABIC TATWEEL WITH FATHATAN ABOVE |
ﹲ | 65138 | ﹲ | FE72 | ARABIC DAMMATAN ISOLATED FORM |
ﹳ | 65139 | ﹳ | FE73 | ARABIC TAIL FRAGMENT |
ﹴ | 65140 | ﹴ | FE74 | ARABIC KASRATAN ISOLATED FORM |
ﹶ | 65142 | ﹶ | FE76 | ARABIC FATHA ISOLATED FORM |
ﹷ | 65143 | ﹷ | FE77 | ARABIC FATHA MEDIAL FORM |
ﹸ | 65144 | ﹸ | FE78 | ARABIC DAMMA ISOLATED FORM |
ﹹ | 65145 | ﹹ | FE79 | ARABIC DAMMA MEDIAL FORM |
ﹺ | 65146 | ﹺ | FE7A | ARABIC KASRA ISOLATED FORM |
ﹻ | 65147 | ﹻ | FE7B | ARABIC KASRA MEDIAL FORM |
ﹼ | 65148 | ﹼ | FE7C | ARABIC SHADDA ISOLATED FORM |
ﹽ | 65149 | ﹽ | FE7D | ARABIC SHADDA MEDIAL FORM |
ﹾ | 65150 | ﹾ | FE7E | ARABIC SUKUN ISOLATED FORM |
ﹿ | 65151 | ﹿ | FE7F | ARABIC SUKUN MEDIAL FORM |
ﺀ | 65152 | ﺀ | FE80 | ARABIC LETTER HAMZA ISOLATED FORM |
ﺁ | 65153 | ﺁ | FE81 | ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE ISOLATED FORM |
ﺂ | 65154 | ﺂ | FE82 | ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE FINAL FORM |
ﺃ | 65155 | ﺃ | FE83 | ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE ISOLATED FORM |
ﺄ | 65156 | ﺄ | FE84 | ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE FINAL FORM |
ﺅ | 65157 | ﺅ | FE85 | ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE ISOLATED FORM |
ﺆ | 65158 | ﺆ | FE86 | ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE FINAL FORM |
ﺇ | 65159 | ﺇ | FE87 | ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW ISOLATED FORM |
ﺈ | 65160 | ﺈ | FE88 | ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW FINAL FORM |
ﺉ | 65161 | ﺉ | FE89 | ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE ISOLATED FORM |
ﺊ | 65162 | ﺊ | FE8A | ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE FINAL FORM |
ﺋ | 65163 | ﺋ | FE8B | ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE INITIAL FORM |
ﺌ | 65164 | ﺌ | FE8C | ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE MEDIAL FORM |
ﺍ | 65165 | ﺍ | FE8D | ARABIC LETTER ALEF ISOLATED FORM |
ﺎ | 65166 | ﺎ | FE8E | ARABIC LETTER ALEF FINAL FORM |
ﺏ | 65167 | ﺏ | FE8F | ARABIC LETTER BEH ISOLATED FORM |
ﺐ | 65168 | ﺐ | FE90 | ARABIC LETTER BEH FINAL FORM |
ﺑ | 65169 | ﺑ | FE91 | ARABIC LETTER BEH INITIAL FORM |
ﺒ | 65170 | ﺒ | FE92 | ARABIC LETTER BEH MEDIAL FORM |
ﺓ | 65171 | ﺓ | FE93 | ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA ISOLATED FORM |
ﺔ | 65172 | ﺔ | FE94 | ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA FINAL FORM |
ﺕ | 65173 | ﺕ | FE95 | ARABIC LETTER TEH ISOLATED FORM |
ﺖ | 65174 | ﺖ | FE96 | ARABIC LETTER TEH FINAL FORM |
ﺗ | 65175 | ﺗ | FE97 | ARABIC LETTER TEH INITIAL FORM |
ﺘ | 65176 | ﺘ | FE98 | ARABIC LETTER TEH MEDIAL FORM |
ﺙ | 65177 | ﺙ | FE99 | ARABIC LETTER THEH ISOLATED FORM |
ﺚ | 65178 | ﺚ | FE9A | ARABIC LETTER THEH FINAL FORM |
ﺛ | 65179 | ﺛ | FE9B | ARABIC LETTER THEH INITIAL FORM |
ﺜ | 65180 | ﺜ | FE9C | ARABIC LETTER THEH MEDIAL FORM |
ﺝ | 65181 | ﺝ | FE9D | ARABIC LETTER JEEM ISOLATED FORM |
ﺞ | 65182 | ﺞ | FE9E | ARABIC LETTER JEEM FINAL FORM |
ﺟ | 65183 | ﺟ | FE9F | ARABIC LETTER JEEM INITIAL FORM |
ﺠ | 65184 | ﺠ | FEA0 | ARABIC LETTER JEEM MEDIAL FORM |
ﺡ | 65185 | ﺡ | FEA1 | ARABIC LETTER HAH ISOLATED FORM |
ﺢ | 65186 | ﺢ | FEA2 | ARABIC LETTER HAH FINAL FORM |
ﺣ | 65187 | ﺣ | FEA3 | ARABIC LETTER HAH INITIAL FORM |
ﺤ | 65188 | ﺤ | FEA4 | ARABIC LETTER HAH MEDIAL FORM |
ﺥ | 65189 | ﺥ | FEA5 | ARABIC LETTER KHAH ISOLATED FORM |
ﺦ | 65190 | ﺦ | FEA6 | ARABIC LETTER KHAH FINAL FORM |
ﺧ | 65191 | ﺧ | FEA7 | ARABIC LETTER KHAH INITIAL FORM |
ﺨ | 65192 | ﺨ | FEA8 | ARABIC LETTER KHAH MEDIAL FORM |
ﺩ | 65193 | ﺩ | FEA9 | ARABIC LETTER DAL ISOLATED FORM |
ﺪ | 65194 | ﺪ | FEAA | ARABIC LETTER DAL FINAL FORM |
ﺫ | 65195 | ﺫ | FEAB | ARABIC LETTER THAL ISOLATED FORM |
ﺬ | 65196 | ﺬ | FEAC | ARABIC LETTER THAL FINAL FORM |
ﺭ | 65197 | ﺭ | FEAD | ARABIC LETTER REH ISOLATED FORM |
ﺮ | 65198 | ﺮ | FEAE | ARABIC LETTER REH FINAL FORM |
ﺯ | 65199 | ﺯ | FEAF | ARABIC LETTER ZAIN ISOLATED FORM |
ﺰ | 65200 | ﺰ | FEB0 | ARABIC LETTER ZAIN FINAL FORM |
ﺱ | 65201 | ﺱ | FEB1 | ARABIC LETTER SEEN ISOLATED FORM |
ﺲ | 65202 | ﺲ | FEB2 | ARABIC LETTER SEEN FINAL FORM |
ﺳ | 65203 | ﺳ | FEB3 | ARABIC LETTER SEEN INITIAL FORM |
ﺴ | 65204 | ﺴ | FEB4 | ARABIC LETTER SEEN MEDIAL FORM |
ﺵ | 65205 | ﺵ | FEB5 | ARABIC LETTER SHEEN ISOLATED FORM |
ﺶ | 65206 | ﺶ | FEB6 | ARABIC LETTER SHEEN FINAL FORM |
ﺷ | 65207 | ﺷ | FEB7 | ARABIC LETTER SHEEN INITIAL FORM |
ﺸ | 65208 | ﺸ | FEB8 | ARABIC LETTER SHEEN MEDIAL FORM |
ﺹ | 65209 | ﺹ | FEB9 | ARABIC LETTER SAD ISOLATED FORM |
ﺺ | 65210 | ﺺ | FEBA | ARABIC LETTER SAD FINAL FORM |
ﺻ | 65211 | ﺻ | FEBB | ARABIC LETTER SAD INITIAL FORM |
ﺼ | 65212 | ﺼ | FEBC | ARABIC LETTER SAD MEDIAL FORM |
ﺽ | 65213 | ﺽ | FEBD | ARABIC LETTER DAD ISOLATED FORM |
ﺾ | 65214 | ﺾ | FEBE | ARABIC LETTER DAD FINAL FORM |
ﺿ | 65215 | ﺿ | FEBF | ARABIC LETTER DAD INITIAL FORM |
ﻀ | 65216 | ﻀ | FEC0 | ARABIC LETTER DAD MEDIAL FORM |
ﻁ | 65217 | ﻁ | FEC1 | ARABIC LETTER TAH ISOLATED FORM |
ﻂ | 65218 | ﻂ | FEC2 | ARABIC LETTER TAH FINAL FORM |
ﻃ | 65219 | ﻃ | FEC3 | ARABIC LETTER TAH INITIAL FORM |
ﻄ | 65220 | ﻄ | FEC4 | ARABIC LETTER TAH MEDIAL FORM |
ﻅ | 65221 | ﻅ | FEC5 | ARABIC LETTER ZAH ISOLATED FORM |
ﻆ | 65222 | ﻆ | FEC6 | ARABIC LETTER ZAH FINAL FORM |
ﻇ | 65223 | ﻇ | FEC7 | ARABIC LETTER ZAH INITIAL FORM |
ﻈ | 65224 | ﻈ | FEC8 | ARABIC LETTER ZAH MEDIAL FORM |
ﻉ | 65225 | ﻉ | FEC9 | ARABIC LETTER AIN ISOLATED FORM |
ﻊ | 65226 | ﻊ | FECA | ARABIC LETTER AIN FINAL FORM |
ﻋ | 65227 | ﻋ | FECB | ARABIC LETTER AIN INITIAL FORM |
ﻌ | 65228 | ﻌ | FECC | ARABIC LETTER AIN MEDIAL FORM |
ﻍ | 65229 | ﻍ | FECD | ARABIC LETTER GHAIN ISOLATED FORM |
ﻎ | 65230 | ﻎ | FECE | ARABIC LETTER GHAIN FINAL FORM |
ﻏ | 65231 | ﻏ | FECF | ARABIC LETTER GHAIN INITIAL FORM |
ﻐ | 65232 | ﻐ | FED0 | ARABIC LETTER GHAIN MEDIAL FORM |
ﻑ | 65233 | ﻑ | FED1 | ARABIC LETTER FEH ISOLATED FORM |
ﻒ | 65234 | ﻒ | FED2 | ARABIC LETTER FEH FINAL FORM |
ﻓ | 65235 | ﻓ | FED3 | ARABIC LETTER FEH INITIAL FORM |
ﻔ | 65236 | ﻔ | FED4 | ARABIC LETTER FEH MEDIAL FORM |
ﻕ | 65237 | ﻕ | FED5 | ARABIC LETTER QAF ISOLATED FORM |
ﻖ | 65238 | ﻖ | FED6 | ARABIC LETTER QAF FINAL FORM |
ﻗ | 65239 | ﻗ | FED7 | ARABIC LETTER QAF INITIAL FORM |
ﻘ | 65240 | ﻘ | FED8 | ARABIC LETTER QAF MEDIAL FORM |
ﻙ | 65241 | ﻙ | FED9 | ARABIC LETTER KAF ISOLATED FORM |
ﻚ | 65242 | ﻚ | FEDA | ARABIC LETTER KAF FINAL FORM |
ﻛ | 65243 | ﻛ | FEDB | ARABIC LETTER KAF INITIAL FORM |
ﻜ | 65244 | ﻜ | FEDC | ARABIC LETTER KAF MEDIAL FORM |
ﻝ | 65245 | ﻝ | FEDD | ARABIC LETTER LAM ISOLATED FORM |
ﻞ | 65246 | ﻞ | FEDE | ARABIC LETTER LAM FINAL FORM |
ﻟ | 65247 | ﻟ | FEDF | ARABIC LETTER LAM INITIAL FORM |
ﻠ | 65248 | ﻠ | FEE0 | ARABIC LETTER LAM MEDIAL FORM |
ﻡ | 65249 | ﻡ | FEE1 | ARABIC LETTER MEEM ISOLATED FORM |
ﻢ | 65250 | ﻢ | FEE2 | ARABIC LETTER MEEM FINAL FORM |
ﻣ | 65251 | ﻣ | FEE3 | ARABIC LETTER MEEM INITIAL FORM |
ﻤ | 65252 | ﻤ | FEE4 | ARABIC LETTER MEEM MEDIAL FORM |
ﻥ | 65253 | ﻥ | FEE5 | ARABIC LETTER NOON ISOLATED FORM |
ﻦ | 65254 | ﻦ | FEE6 | ARABIC LETTER NOON FINAL FORM |
ﻧ | 65255 | ﻧ | FEE7 | ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM |
ﻨ | 65256 | ﻨ | FEE8 | ARABIC LETTER NOON MEDIAL FORM |
ﻩ | 65257 | ﻩ | FEE9 | ARABIC LETTER HEH ISOLATED FORM |
ﻪ | 65258 | ﻪ | FEEA | ARABIC LETTER HEH FINAL FORM |
ﻫ | 65259 | ﻫ | FEEB | ARABIC LETTER HEH INITIAL FORM |
ﻬ | 65260 | ﻬ | FEEC | ARABIC LETTER HEH MEDIAL FORM |
ﻭ | 65261 | ﻭ | FEED | ARABIC LETTER WAW ISOLATED FORM |
ﻮ | 65262 | ﻮ | FEEE | ARABIC LETTER WAW FINAL FORM |
ﻯ | 65263 | ﻯ | FEEF | ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA ISOLATED FORM |
ﻰ | 65264 | ﻰ | FEF0 | ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA FINAL FORM |
ﻱ | 65265 | ﻱ | FEF1 | ARABIC LETTER YEH ISOLATED FORM |
ﻲ | 65266 | ﻲ | FEF2 | ARABIC LETTER YEH FINAL FORM |
ﻳ | 65267 | ﻳ | FEF3 | ARABIC LETTER YEH INITIAL FORM |
ﻴ | 65268 | ﻴ | FEF4 | ARABIC LETTER YEH MEDIAL FORM |
ﻵ | 65269 | ﻵ | FEF5 | ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE ISOLATED FORM |
ﻶ | 65270 | ﻶ | FEF6 | ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE FINAL FORM |
ﻷ | 65271 | ﻷ | FEF7 | ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE ISOLATED FORM |
ﻸ | 65272 | ﻸ | FEF8 | ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE FINAL FORM |
ﻹ | 65273 | ﻹ | FEF9 | ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW ISOLATED FORM |
ﻺ | 65274 | ﻺ | FEFA | ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW FINAL FORM |
ﻻ | 65275 | ﻻ | FEFB | ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH ALEF ISOLATED FORM |
ﻼ | 65276 | ﻼ | FEFC | ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH ALEF FINAL FORM |
‘’ | 65279 | ‘’ | FEFF | ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE |
Copyright © 1999–2009 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 3.2 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2002 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in April 2002.
Created 3rd February 1999 Last updated 16th December 2009