U+07B0 "ް" Thaana Sukun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ް
U+07B0 "ް" Thaana Sukun is a combining sign used in the Thaana script, primarily employed for writing the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. It functions as a vowel killer or virama, indicating the absence of a vowel sound after a consonant, effectively marking a consonant as vowelless or ending a syllable. This diacritic is essential for accurate phonetic representation in Dhivehi orthography, helping to clarify word pronunciation and distinction between similar characters in written text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+07B0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Thaana Sukun |
| 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 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x07B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000007B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u07b0 |