U+079A "ޚ" Thaana Letter Khaa Unicode Character

U+079A "ޚ" Thaana Letter Khaa is a letter from the Thaana script, which is the writing system used for the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives. Representing the sound /x/ or a voiceless velar fricative, similar to the "ch" in the Scottish "loch" or the Arabic letter "خ" (Kha), it is one of several letters in the Thaana alphabet derived from Arabic phonemes. This character is employed in standard Dhivehi orthography to denote a foreign or emphatic consonant sound, and it appears in written texts ranging from official documents to everyday communication in the Maldives.