U+060B "؋" Afghani Sign Unicode Character

U+060B "؋" Afghani Sign is the currency symbol for the Afghan afghani, the official monetary unit of Afghanistan. It is classified as a currency symbol in the Arabic block of the Unicode standard, reflecting its visual origins in calligraphic Arabic script. The sign is used in financial contexts to denote amounts in afghanis, appearing before or after the numerical value depending on local or typographic conventions. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across systems and platforms for financial data, text, and applications involving Afghan currency.

General Properties

Code Point	U+060B
Version Added	4.1
Name	Afghani Sign
Block	Arabic
General Category	Currency Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	؋
HTML Hex Encoding	؋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD8 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x060B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000060B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u060b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Postfix Numeric
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other