U+0791 "ޑ" Thaana Letter Daviyani Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޑ
U+0791 "ޑ" Thaana Letter Daviyani is the seventeenth letter of the Thaana script, which is used primarily to write the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. This character represents the voiced retroflex stop consonant sound /ɖ/, similar to the "d" sound in English but pronounced with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth. The Thaana script itself is unique in that its letters were derived from Arabic numerals and other symbols, with the order of the alphabet traditionally arranged according to the Arabic abjad sequence, and this particular letter is written from right to left, following the overall direction of the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0791 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Daviyani |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0791 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000791 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0791 |