How do you add Arabic symbols to Word. This is a great trick to remember, especially when you are using abbreviations like saw, swt or ra. While some of you may already be aware of this, I wanted to post it here in hopes that it could be helpful to those who aren’t aware.
In this article I’ll demonstrate how you can include Islamic calligraphic phrases to Microsoft Word without installing any fonts. They appear in the form of symbols. It is common to use phrases in Arabic like:
- Allah
- Sall Allahu alay-hi wa-sallam
- Muhammad
- Rasool
- Wasalam
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More information and more is available below.
Here’s a list with the most commonly used Arabic phrases, you can compose these using MS Word easily, read below for directions on how to write them.
| Arabic Phrase/Word | English Transliteration | Unicode |
| Allah | FDF2 | |
| Sall Allahu alay-hi wa-sallam | FDFA | |
| Mohammed | FDF4 | |
| Akbar | FDF3 | |
| Rasool | FDF6 | |
| Jallajalaalahu | FDFB | |
| Salla | FDF9 | |
| Wa-salam | FDF8 | |
| Alayhe | FDF7 | |
| Salam | FDF5 | |
| Qala | FDF1 | |
| Salla | FDF0 |
Since Unicode 15.0 in Unicode 15.0, the Arabic script is included in the following blocks:
- Arabic (0600-06FF, 256 characters)
- Arabic Supplement (0750-077F, 48 characters)
- Arabic Extended-B (0870-089F 41 characters)
- Arabic Extended-A (08A0-08FF, the characters are 96)
- Arabic Presentation Forms-A (FB50-FDFF, 631 characters)
- Arabic Presentation Forms-B (FE70-FEFF, 141 characters)
- Rumi Numeral Symbols (10E60-10E7F, 31 characters)
- Arabic Extended-C (10EC0-10EFF 3 characters)
- Indic Siyaq Numerics (1EC70-1ECBF, 128 characters)
- Ottoman Siyaq Numbers (1ED00-1ED4F, 61 characters)
- Arabic Mathematics Alphabetic symbols (1EE00-1EEFF 135 characters)
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To include one of the above you have in order to add it is to:
- Open Microsoft Word
- Enter the Unicode such as. fdfa (works in either case)
- Press Alt+x on the keyboard, this will change FDFA into
This is the way it is possible to write Arabic characters in Word without having to install fonts. We hope that this will help.
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CONCLUSION
For a complete list of the Unicode characters that are used for Arabic go here for more information, and for further information, read the following page.
Arabic Symbols Used in Transliteration
Three Arabic Symbols
Arabic Transliteration
