U+07A1 "ޡ" Thaana Letter Zo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޡ
U+07A1 "ޡ" Thaana Letter Zo is the twenty-third letter of the Thaana script, which is used primarily to write the Dhivehi language of the Maldives. This letter represents the voiced alveolar fricative sound /z/, similar to the English 'z' in "zebra". Its shape, a distinctive curved form with a dot above, is typical of Thaana's unique orthography, which writes vowels as diacritical marks attached to consonants. In Dhivehi, Zo appears in words of Arabic, Persian, or English origin where the /z/ sound is needed, as the native Dhivehi lexicon does not historically include this phoneme.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07A1 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Zo |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07A1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07a1 |