U+07AF "ޯ" Thaana Oaboafili Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ޯ
U+07AF "ޯ" Thaana Oaboafili is a combining vowel sign used in the Thaana script of the Dhivehi language, spoken in the Maldives. It represents a long vowel sound, specifically a lengthened and rounded back vowel akin to a prolonged 'o' or 'aw', and is written as a diacritical mark that attaches above a base consonant character to modify its pronunciation. This character is part of the Thaana Unicode block, enabling digital representation and proper typesetting of Dhivehi text in modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07AF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Oaboafili |
| 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 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07af |