U+0790 "ސ" Thaana Letter Seenu Unicode Character

U+0790 "ސ" Thaana Letter Seenu is the fourteenth consonant of the Thaana script, used primarily to write the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. It represents the voiceless dental fricative sound /s/, akin to the English "s" in "sun." In the Thaana abugida, this letter is derived from the Arabic numeral four, following the script's unique convention of borrowing numeral shapes for consonant symbols. It appears in written Dhivehi as a standalone character or combined with diacritical vowel marks to form syllables, and it is essential for proper representation of the language's phonetic inventory.