# ؛ U+061B ARABIC SEMICOLON

Arabic semicolon with an inverted comma above a dot, used in Arabic, Persian, Urdu and related scripts.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `؛` |
| Codepoint | U+061B |
| Name | ARABIC SEMICOLON |
| Block | [Arabic](https://unicodekit.com/block/arabic) |
| Script | Arabic, Garay, Hanifi_Rohingya, Nko, Syriac, Thaana, Yezidi |
| Category | Other Punctuation (Po) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `؛` `؛` |
| CSS | `\61B` |
| JavaScript | `\u061B` |
| UTF-8 | D8 9B |
| UTF-16 | 061B |

## Notes

- also used with Thaana and Syriac in modern text

## Related characters

- [U+061A ARABIC SMALL KASRA](https://unicodekit.com/char/061A)
- [U+061C ARABIC LETTER MARK](https://unicodekit.com/char/061C)
- [U+0619 ARABIC SMALL DAMMA](https://unicodekit.com/char/0619)
- ؝ [U+061D ARABIC END OF TEXT MARK](https://unicodekit.com/char/061D)
- [U+0618 ARABIC SMALL FATHA](https://unicodekit.com/char/0618)
- ؞ [U+061E ARABIC TRIPLE DOT PUNCTUATION MARK](https://unicodekit.com/char/061E)
- [U+0617 ARABIC SMALL HIGH ZAIN](https://unicodekit.com/char/0617)
- ؟ [U+061F ARABIC QUESTION MARK](https://unicodekit.com/char/061F)
- [U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH](https://unicodekit.com/char/0616)
- ؠ [U+0620 ARABIC LETTER KASHMIRI YEH](https://unicodekit.com/char/0620)
- [U+0615 ARABIC SMALL HIGH TAH](https://unicodekit.com/char/0615)
- ء [U+0621 ARABIC LETTER HAMZA](https://unicodekit.com/char/0621)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/061B · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/061B