U+078A "ފ" Thaana Letter Faafu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+078A "ފ" Thaana Letter Faafu is the sixteenth letter of the Thaana script, which is used primarily to write the Dhivehi language of the Maldives and also the Maldivian dialect of the Mahl language in India. This character, which is classified as a consonant, represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound /f/. Its name, "Faafu," follows the traditional Thaana naming convention where letters are named by adding an -u suffix to the sound they represent. In the standard Thaana alphabet ordering, Faafu is located between the letters "މ" (Meemu) and "ދ" (Dhaalu), and it is written from right to left, as is the entire Thaana script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+078A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Faafu |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ފ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ފ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x078A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000078A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u078a |