U+078A "ފ" Thaana Letter Faafu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+078A "ފ" Thaana Letter Faafu is the sixteenth letter of the Thaana script, which is used primarily to write the Dhivehi language of the Maldives and also the Maldivian dialect of the Mahl language in India. This character, which is classified as a consonant, represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound /f/. Its name, "Faafu," follows the traditional Thaana naming convention where letters are named by adding an -u suffix to the sound they represent. In the standard Thaana alphabet ordering, Faafu is located between the letters "މ" (Meemu) and "ދ" (Dhaalu), and it is written from right to left, as is the entire Thaana script.
General Properties
Code Point
U+078A
Name
Thaana Letter Faafu
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ފ
HTML Hex Encoding
ފ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xDE 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x078A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000078A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u078a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Thaana