U+07A9 "ީ" Thaana Eebeefili Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ީ
U+07A9 "ީ" Thaana Eebeefili is a combining mark used in the Thaana script, specifically employed to write the Dhivehi language of the Maldives. This character represents the vowel sound /iː/ (a long "ee" sound) and is written as a diacritic above a consonant letter to modify its pronunciation. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Thaana block (U+0780–U+07B1) and is an essential component for accurately representing the phonetics of Dhivehi in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07A9 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Eebeefili |
| Block | Thaana |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ީ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ީ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDE 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07A9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07a9 |