U+079F "ޟ" Thaana Letter Daadhu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޟ
U+079F "ޟ" Thaana Letter Daadhu is part of the Thaana script, which is used primarily to write the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. This specific letter represents the voiced dental fricative sound, similar to the "th" in the English word "that" but pronounced with the tongue placed against the upper teeth. In the Thaana alphabet, Daadhu is a consonant and follows the letter "Dhaalu" in the standard ordering of the script. Its glyph resembles a curved line with a small dot above it, and it plays a key role in distinguishing words in Dhivehi orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+079F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Daadhu |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x079F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000079F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u079f |