U+07A1 "ޡ" Thaana Letter Zo Unicode Character

U+07A1 "ޡ" Thaana Letter Zo is the twenty-third letter of the Thaana script, which is used primarily to write the Dhivehi language of the Maldives. This letter represents the voiced alveolar fricative sound /z/, similar to the English 'z' in "zebra". Its shape, a distinctive curved form with a dot above, is typical of Thaana's unique orthography, which writes vowels as diacritical marks attached to consonants. In Dhivehi, Zo appears in words of Arabic, Persian, or English origin where the /z/ sound is needed, as the native Dhivehi lexicon does not historically include this phoneme.