Alphabetic Presentation Forms

Alphabetic Presentation Forms
Alphabetic Presentation Forms
Range	U+FB00..U+FB4F; (80 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Armenian (5 char.) ; Hebrew (46 char.) ; Latin (7 char.)
Assigned	58 code points
Unused	22 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.1 (1992)	1 (+1)
1.1 (1993)	57 (+56)
3.0 (1999)	58 (+1)
Unicode documentation
	Code chart ∣ Web page
	Note: Range was initially part of the Private Use Area in Unicode 1.0.0, and removed from it in Unicode 1.0.1. One character was moved from the Hebrew block to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.

Alphabetic Presentation Forms is a Unicode block containing standard ligatures for the Latin, Armenian, and Hebrew scripts.

Block

Alphabetic Presentation Forms^[1]^[2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+FB0x	ﬀ	ﬁ	ﬂ	ﬃ	ﬄ	ﬅ	ﬆ
U+FB1x				ﬓ	ﬔ	ﬕ	ﬖ	ﬗ						יִ‎	ﬞ ‎	ײַ‎
U+FB2x	ﬠ‎	ﬡ‎	ﬢ‎	ﬣ‎	ﬤ‎	ﬥ‎	ﬦ‎	ﬧ‎	ﬨ‎	﬩‎	שׁ‎	שׂ‎	שּׁ‎	שּׂ‎	אַ‎	אָ‎
U+FB3x	אּ‎	בּ‎	גּ‎	דּ‎	הּ‎	וּ‎	זּ‎		טּ‎	יּ‎	ךּ‎	כּ‎	לּ‎		מּ‎
U+FB4x	נּ‎	סּ‎		ףּ‎	פּ‎		צּ‎	קּ‎	רּ‎	שּ‎	תּ‎	וֹ‎	בֿ‎	כֿ‎	פֿ‎	ﭏ‎
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.1	U+FB1E	1				(to be determined)
1.1	U+FB00..FB06, FB13..FB17, FB1F..FB36, FB38..FB3C, FB3E, FB40..FB41, FB43..FB44, FB46..FB4F	56				(to be determined)
3.0	U+FB1D	1		X3L2/95-124	N1364	David, Mark (1995-09-29), Proposal for Inclusion of One Additional Character, HEBREW LETTER YOD WITH HIRIQ, in the Unicode/ISO 10646 Standard
			UTC/1995-054			"Additional Yiddish Letter", Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #66, Draft Minutes, 1995-09-29
					N1353	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-06-25), "8.13", Draft minutes of WG2 Copenhagen Meeting # 30
				L2/98-004R	N1681	Text of ISO 10646 – AMD 18 for PDAM registration and FPDAM ballot, 1997-12-22
				L2/98-318	N1894	Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 18, AMENDMENT 18: Symbols and Others, 1998-10-22
				L2/01-004		Duerst, Martin (2000-12-20), The impact of normalization (proposal to add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion list)
				L2/01-008		Constable, Peter (2000-12-22), Argument to add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion list
				L2/01-038		Rosenne, Jonathan (2001-01-18), Add U+FB1D to the Composition Exclusion List
				L2/01-012R		Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), "Normalization - YOD WITH HIRIQ", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

^ "3.5: Private Use Area" (PDF). The Unicode Standard, Version 1.0, Volume 1. Unicode Consortium. 1991. pp. 118–119. ISBN 0-201-56788-1.
^ "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.

Alphabetic Presentation Forms
Range	U+FB00..U+FB4F (80 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Armenian (5 char.) Hebrew (46 char.) Latin (7 char.)
Assigned	58 code points
Unused	22 reserved code points
Unicode version history

1.0.1 (1992)	1 (+1)
1.1 (1993)	57 (+56)
3.0 (1999)	58 (+1)

Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: Range was initially part of the Private Use Area in Unicode 1.0.0,^[1] and removed from it in Unicode 1.0.1. One character was moved from the Hebrew block to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.^[2]^[3]^[4]