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Kurdish Alphabet (Arabic)
The letters and characters of Kurdish written in the Arabic script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 4,794,503 people read or write it across 3 countries.
Kurdish is also written in: (Latin)
Standard characters
The minimal set of characters required for Kurdish — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.
Additional Characters
Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.
Punctuation characters
The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.
Where Kurdish (Arabic) is read
Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Kurdish in the Arabic script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.
Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).
| Country | Estimated readers | Share of population |
|---|---|---|
| Iraq | 4,208,340 | 10% |
| Iran | 494,967 | 0.56% |
| Lebanon | 91,196 | 1.7% |
Kurdish (Arabic) — facts
| Font coverage | 33 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 33 standard characters; 9 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026. |
|---|---|
| Script | Arabic |
| Unicode blocks | Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Arabic, General Punctuation, Mathematical Operators, Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| People | About 4,794,503 people read or write Kurdish in the Arabic script — mostly in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon. |
| Also written in | Kurdish (Latin) |
Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.