Buckwalter Arabic Transliteration

ARABIC TRANSLITERATION

I developed my transliteration system before XML days. To make it XML-friendly I would:

replace < with I (for hamza-under-alif)
replace > with O (for hamza-over-alif—the A is already used for bare alif)
replace & with W (for hamza-on-waw)

Transliteration Arabic Windows Unicode Value and Unicode Name

' C1 U+0621 ARABIC LETTER HAMZA

| C2 U+0622 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE

> C3 U+0623 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE

& C4 U+0624 ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE

< C5 U+0625 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW

} C6 U+0626 ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE

A C7 U+0627 ARABIC LETTER ALEF

b C8 U+0628 ARABIC LETTER BEH

p C9 U+0629 ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA

t CA U+062A ARABIC LETTER TEH

v CB U+062B ARABIC LETTER THEH

j CC U+062C ARABIC LETTER JEEM

H CD U+062D ARABIC LETTER HAH

x CE U+062E ARABIC LETTER KHAH

d CF U+062F ARABIC LETTER DAL

* D0 U+0630 ARABIC LETTER THAL

r D1 U+0631 ARABIC LETTER REH

z D2 U+0632 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN

s D3 U+0633 ARABIC LETTER SEEN

$ D4 U+0634 ARABIC LETTER SHEEN

S D5 U+0635 ARABIC LETTER SAD

D D6 U+0636 ARABIC LETTER DAD

T D8 U+0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH

Z D9 U+0638 ARABIC LETTER ZAH

E DA U+0639 ARABIC LETTER AIN

g DB U+063A ARABIC LETTER GHAIN

_ DC U+0640 ARABIC TATWEEL

f DD U+0641 ARABIC LETTER FEH

q DE U+0642 ARABIC LETTER QAF

k DF U+0643 ARABIC LETTER KAF

l E1 U+0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM

m E3 U+0645 ARABIC LETTER MEEM

n E4 U+0646 ARABIC LETTER NOON

h E5 U+0647 ARABIC LETTER HEH

w E6 U+0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW

Y EC U+0649 ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA

y ED U+064A ARABIC LETTER YEH

F F0 U+064B ARABIC FATHATAN

N F1 U+064C ARABIC DAMMATAN

K F2 U+064D ARABIC KASRATAN

a F3 U+064E ARABIC FATHA

u F5 U+064F ARABIC DAMMA

i F6 U+0650 ARABIC KASRA

~ F8 U+0651 ARABIC SHADDA

o FA U+0652 ARABIC SUKUN

` U+0670 ARABIC LETTER SUPERSCRIPT ALEF

{ U+0671 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WASLA

P 81 U+067E ARABIC LETTER PEH

J 8D U+0686 ARABIC LETTER TCHEH

V U+06A4 ARABIC LETTER VEH

G 90 U+06AF ARABIC LETTER GAF

The full Arabic character set can be viewed at the Unicode website:

Arabic: U+0600 to U+06FF (PDF format)
Arabic Presentation Forms-A: U+FB50 to U+FDFF (PDF format)
Arabic Presentation Forms-B: U+FE70 to U+FEFF (PDF format)

The TITUS page for U+0600 through U+06FF displays the actual characters in your browser (UTF-8 encoding).

You can test your web browser's Arabic Unicode support at Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources website.

The Microsoft developer website has a useful table of the Arabic Windows (1256) and ISO 8859-6 code pages and their corresponding Unicode values.