U+079C "ޜ" Thaana Letter Zaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޜ
U+079C "ޜ" Thaana Letter Zaa is a letter used in the Thaana script, primarily for writing the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives, where it represents the voiced alveolar fricative sound /z/. This character is distinct from many other Thaana letters as it is primarily employed in loanwords from languages like Arabic, English, or Urdu, rather than in native Dhivehi vocabulary. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard at version 3.0 ensures digital representation and correct text rendering for Dhivehi, supporting the linguistic diversity of the Indian Ocean region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+079C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Zaa |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x079C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000079C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u079c |