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U+061B · ARABIC SEMICOLON

Arabic Semicolon

  • CodepointU+061B
  • NameARABIC SEMICOLON
  • Decimal1563
  • BlockArabic (U+0600–U+06FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classAL — Arabic Letter
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+061B (؛) is ARABIC SEMICOLON, a punctuation mark in the Arabic block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a strong right-to-left character (bidirectional class AL), so it sets the direction of the text around it. See bidirectional text.

How to type ؛

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D8 9B2 bytes
UTF-16061B1 code unit
UTF-320000061B4 bytes
HTML decimal؛
HTML hex؛
CSS\61Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u061B
JSON\u061B
Python\u061B
Python\N{ARABIC SEMICOLON}by name
Java / C#\u061B
C / C++\u061Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{61B}
Go\u061B
Ruby\u061B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1563)
URL-encoded%D8%9Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+2E35⸵Turned Semicolon
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+0615◌ؕArabic Small High Tah U+0616◌ؖArabic Small High Ligature Alef with Lam with Yeh U+0617◌ؗArabic Small High Zain U+0618◌ؘArabic Small Fatha U+0619◌ؙArabic Small Damma U+061A◌ؚArabic Small Kasra U+061CALMArabic Letter Mark U+061D؝Arabic End of Text Mark U+061E؞Arabic Triple Dot Punctuation Mark U+061F؟Arabic Question Mark U+0620ؠArabic Letter Kashmiri Yeh U+0621ءArabic Letter Hamza