U+0790 "ސ" Thaana Letter Seenu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ސ
U+0790 "ސ" Thaana Letter Seenu is the fourteenth consonant of the Thaana script, used primarily to write the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. It represents the voiceless dental fricative sound /s/, akin to the English "s" in "sun." In the Thaana abugida, this letter is derived from the Arabic numeral four, following the script's unique convention of borrowing numeral shapes for consonant symbols. It appears in written Dhivehi as a standalone character or combined with diacritical vowel marks to form syllables, and it is essential for proper representation of the language's phonetic inventory.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0790 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Seenu |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ސ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ސ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0790 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000790 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0790 |