U+0792 "ޒ" Thaana Letter Zaviyani Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޒ
U+0792 "ޒ" Thaana Letter Zaviyani is a letter in the Thaana script, which is used to write the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. It represents the voiced dental fricative sound, similar to the English "z" in "zebra," and is commonly used in native Dhivehi words as well as in loanwords. Thaana is written from right to left, and this character is part of the Thaana block in Unicode, encoded specifically for digital representation of the script. Its name, Zaviyani, refers to its alphabetic position in the Thaana alphabet, where it denotes a distinct phoneme essential for accurate spelling and pronunciation in Dhivehi.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0792 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Zaviyani |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0792 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000792 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0792 |