U+079E "ޞ" Thaana Letter Saadhu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޞ
U+079E "ޞ" Thaana Letter Saadhu is a character from the Thaana script used to write the Dhivehi language of the Maldives, representing a specific consonant sound. This letter is one of several additional characters in the Thaana alphabet that were borrowed from Arabic to accommodate Arabic loanwords, and it corresponds to the Arabic letter Ṣād. It is a significant part of the orthography for accurately representing the pronunciation of borrowed terms in Dhivehi text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+079E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Saadhu |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x079E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000079E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u079e |