U+078F "ޏ" Thaana Letter Gnaviyani Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޏ
U+078F "ޏ" Thaana Letter Gnaviyani is the thirteenth letter of the Thaana script, which is used primarily to write the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. This letter represents the retroflex nasal sound /ɳ/, a distinctive phoneme in Dhivehi that is articulated with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth. In the unique Thaana writing system, which is written from right to left and combines elements of Arabic and Indic scripts, Gnaviyani is one of several characters that denote sounds not found in Arabic, reflecting the language's South Asian linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+078F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Gnaviyani |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x078F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000078F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u078f |