U+0797 "ޗ" Thaana Letter Chaviyani Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0797 "ޗ" Thaana Letter Chaviyani is a letter in the Thaana script used to write the Dhivehi language of the Maldives. It represents the sound /tʃ/, similar to the "ch" in English "chip", and its name "Chaviyani" refers to the word for the ironwood tree, reflecting a traditional naming convention where letters were associated with native terms. This character is classified within the Unicode Thaana block and has a right-to-left directionality, consistent with the script's writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0797 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Chaviyani |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0797 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000797 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0797 |