U+07A5 "ޥ" Thaana Letter Waavu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޥ
U+07A5 "ޥ" Thaana Letter Waavu is the twenty-fifth letter of the Thaana script, which is used primarily to write the Dhivehi language of the Maldives. It represents the voiced labial-velar approximant sound /w/ and is distinguished by its distinctive cursive shape, which slopes to the right with a loop at the top. In the Thaana alphabet, letters are written from right to left, and Waavu functions as a consonant, frequently appearing in native Dhivehi words as well as in loanwords from Arabic and other languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07A5 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Letter Waavu |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ޥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ޥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07a5 |