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Punjabi Alphabet (Arabic)

The letters and characters of Punjabi 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 176,654,800 people read or write it across 1 country.

Punjabi is also written in: (Gurmukhi)

43Fonts cover the standard set
44Standard characters
176,654,800People
1Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Punjabi — 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.

-U+002D‐U+2010‑U+2011,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D{U+007B}U+007D

Where Punjabi (Arabic) is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Punjabi 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.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
Pakistan 176,654,800 70%

Punjabi (Arabic) — facts

Font coverage 43 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 44 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, Arabic, General Punctuation
People About 176,654,800 people read or write Punjabi in the Arabic script — mostly in Pakistan.
Also written in Punjabi (Gurmukhi)

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.