U+07AB "ޫ" Thaana Ooboofili Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07AB "ޫ" Thaana Ooboofili is a combining diacritical mark used in the Thaana script, the official writing system of the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. It represents the vowel sound /oː/ and is placed above a consonant letter to indicate a long "oo" pronunciation, functioning as one of the extensions to the base vowel signs in the script. This character is encoded in the Unicode Thaana block, which was introduced in version 3.0 to support the unique orthographic features of Dhivehi.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07AB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Ooboofili |
| 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07ab |