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Glyph for U+061B
Source: Noto Sans Arabic

U+061B Arabic Semicolon

U+061B was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+0600 to U+06FF Arabic in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Arabic, N’Ko, Hanifi Rohingya, Syriac, Thaana, Yezidi.

The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as Arabic letter from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+061B prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The CLDR project calls this character “arabic semicolon” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: arabic, semi-colon.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The semicolon ; (or semi-colon) is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation. In the English language, a semicolon is most commonly used to link (in a single sentence) two independent clauses that are closely related in thought, such as when restating the preceding idea with a different expression. When a semicolon joins two or more ideas in one sentence, those ideas are then given equal rank. Semicolons can also be used in place of commas to separate items in a list, particularly when the elements of the list themselves have embedded commas.

The semicolon is one of the least understood of the standard marks, and is not frequently used by many English speakers.

In the QWERTY keyboard layout, the semicolon resides in the unshifted homerow beneath the little finger of the right hand and has become widely used in programming languages as a statement separator or terminator.

Representations

System Representation
1563
UTF-8 D8 9B
UTF-16 06 1B
UTF-32 00 00 06 1B
URL-Quoted %D8%9B
HTML hex reference ؛
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake Ø›
Encoding: ISO-8859-6 (hex bytes) BB
Encoding: WINDOWS-1256 (hex bytes) BA
Adobe Glyph List afii57403
Adobe Glyph List semicolonarabic
digraph ;+

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) ARABIC SEMICOLON
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Arabic
General Category (gc) Other Punctuation
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Arabic Letter
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Exclamation/Interrogation
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+061B Arabic Semicolon
Script Extension (scx) Arabic N’Ko Hanifi Rohingya Syriac Thaana Yezidi
Vertical Orientation (vo) R