U+0785 "ޅ" Thaana Letter Lhaviyani Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޅ
U+0785 "ޅ" Thaana Letter Lhaviyani is a letter used in the Thaana script, which is the writing system for the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. It represents the retroflex lateral approximant sound, similar to the "l" sound produced with the tongue curled back, and is an essential component in spelling native Dhivehi words where this distinct phonetic quality is required. In the Thaana alphabet, Lhaviyani is the seventh letter and is typically written from right to left, following the script's overall direction, and it plays a key role in distinguishing meaning in the language's lexicon.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0785 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Lhaviyani |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0785 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000785 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0785 |