U+078D "ލ" Thaana Letter Laamu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+078D "ލ" Thaana Letter Laamu is a character in the Thaana script used to write the Dhivehi language of the Maldives, where it represents the voiced alveolar lateral approximant sound /l/. It belongs to a consonant-heavy alphabet that is uniquely written from right to left and features diacritical marks for vowels, drawn from Arabic and Indic influences. The letter Laamu occupies a specific place in the Thaana consonant order and is essential for constructing many common Dhivehi words, including terms related to daily life, culture, and geography in the Maldives. Its inclusion in Unicode enables digital representation and global communication for Dhivehi speakers across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+078D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Laamu |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ލ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ލ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x078D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000078D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u078d |