U+079B "ޛ" Thaana Letter Thaalu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޛ
U+079B "ޛ" Thaana Letter Thaalu is a consonant used in the Thaana script, which is the writing system for the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives and also for the co-official language in India's Lakshadweep territory. This letter represents the voiced dental fricative sound similar to the "th" in the English word "this", and it is derived from the Arabic letter ḏāl. In the Thaana alphabetical order, Thaalu holds the twelfth position, and its unique shape features a horizontal base with a vertical stroke and a small dot, distinguishing it from other letters in the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+079B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Thaalu |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x079B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000079B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u079b |