U+07A3 "ޣ" Thaana Letter Ghainu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޣ
U+07A3 "ޣ" Thaana Letter Ghainu is a letter in the Thaana script, which is primarily used to write the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. This character represents the voiced velar fricative sound, similar to the "gh" in some Arabic loanwords, and is a part of the Thaana alphabet's extended set of letters derived from Arabic phonetics. It is encoded in the Unicode block for Thaana, which was added to the standard to support the accurate digital representation of Dhivehi text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07A3 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Ghainu |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07a3 |