U+0600 "" Arabic Number Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+0600 "" Arabic Number Sign is a control character used within the Arabic script to indicate the start of a numeric or enumerative sequence in certain historical and modern textual contexts. Unlike typical punctuation marks, it is not a visible glyph itself but rather an invisible formatting marker that signals to text processing systems that the following characters form a number or a list item. This character is part of the Arabic block in Unicode and is primarily employed for legacy support and specialized text layout, where it helps disambiguate numbers from surrounding text in right-to-left writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0600 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Arabic Number Sign |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Format |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Number |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ؀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ؀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0600 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000600 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0600 |