U+0799 "ޙ" Thaana Letter Hhaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޙ
U+0799 "ޙ" Thaana Letter Hhaa is a consonant used in the Thaana script, which is the writing system for the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. This character represents a voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound, similar to the Arabic letter ح, and is distinct from the more common Thaana letter Haa (ހ). It appears in the Unicode block for Thaana, which was added to the standard to support digital representation and preservation of the Dhivehi language, and its usage is essential for correctly spelling certain words of Arabic origin within Maldivian texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0799 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Hhaa |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0799 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000799 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0799 |