U+0789 "މ" Thaana Letter Meemu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
މ
U+0789 "މ" Thaana Letter Meemu is a consonant in the Thaana script, which is used primarily to write the Dhivehi language of the Maldives and the Maldivian diaspora. This character represents the sound /m/ and is the equivalent of the Arabic letter "م" or the Latin letter "M". In the Thaana abjad, each consonant carries an inherent vowel /a/, which can be modified by diacritical vowel markers called fili. The letter Meemu is the 15th character in the Thaana alphabet and appears in all standard texts and digital communications for Dhivehi, playing a fundamental role in forming common words and proper nouns.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0789 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Meemu |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | މ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | މ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0789 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000789 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0789 |