U+061B ARABIC SEMICOLON

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Decimal / Nº
1563
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Arabic Letter
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+061B, officially named ARABIC SEMICOLON, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Arabic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Arabic Letter character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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1563 Copied!
UTF-8 D8 9B Copied!
UTF-16 06 1B Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 06 1B Copied!
URL-Quoted %D8%9B Copied!
HTML hex reference ؛ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'061B' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u061B Copied!
C and C++ \u061b Copied!
C# \u061b Copied!
CSS \00061B Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(1563) Copied!
Go \u061b Copied!
JavaScript \u061B Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{061b} Copied!
JSON \u061B Copied!
Java \u061B Copied!
Lua \u{061B} Copied!
Matlab char(1563) Copied!
Perl \x{061B} Copied!
PHP \u{061b} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\061B' Copied!
PowerShell `u{061B} Copied!
Python \u061b Copied!
Ruby \u{061b} Copied!
Rust \u{061b} Copied!