U+0788 "ވ" Thaana Letter Vaavu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0788 "ވ" Thaana Letter Vaavu is a letter used in the Thaana script, which is the writing system for the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. Representing the voiced labiodental fricative sound /v/, this character is akin to the English letter "V" and is the sixth letter in the Thaana alphabet. It is written from right to left and is classified under the Thaana block in Unicode, where it serves as a core component for spelling native and borrowed words in Dhivehi.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0788 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Vaavu |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ވ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ވ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0788 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000788 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0788 |