U+07AC "ެ" Thaana Ebefili Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+07AC "ެ" Thaana Ebefili is a vowel sign used in the Thaana script, which is primarily employed to write the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. This combining character, known as an ebefili, represents the short vowel sound equivalent to the Latin letter "e" and is placed above or attached to a base consonant character to modify its pronunciation. It forms an essential component of the Thaana orthographic system, enabling the accurate representation of Dhivehi phonology in written form, and was encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital text processing for this unique script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07AC |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Ebefili |
| 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07ac |