The Thaana range was introduced with version 3.0 of the Unicode Standard. Thaana (or Tana) is the right-to-left script used to write Dhivehi (or Divehi), the Indo-Aryan national language of the Maldives. You can see some real Dhivehi in the online newspaper Haveeru Daily. You can see some Unicode Thaana at Project Thaana : Unicode sample page.
Microsoft Windows incorporates support for Thaana Unicode from Windows XP onwards.
A Thaana Unicode keyboard layout for Mac OS X 10.2 can be downloaded from http://quinon.com/files/keylayouts/; it has been produced by Yusuke Kinoshita.
The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Code2000, Fixedsys Excelsior, Free Idg Serif, Free Serif, MPH 2B Damase, MV Boli, Mv Elaaf, Mv GroupX Avas, Mv Iyyu, Mv Lady Luck, Mv MAG Round, Mv Sega, Sun-ExtA, Thaana Unicode Akeh and TITUS Cyberbit Basic; and in the Unix Unicode font ClearlyU.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0780.pdf.
Character | Decimal | Hex | Name |
---|---|---|---|
ހ | 1920 | 0780 | THAANA LETTER HAA |
ށ | 1921 | 0781 | THAANA LETTER SHAVIYANI |
ނ | 1922 | 0782 | THAANA LETTER NOONU |
ރ | 1923 | 0783 | THAANA LETTER RAA |
ބ | 1924 | 0784 | THAANA LETTER BAA |
ޅ | 1925 | 0785 | THAANA LETTER LHAVIYANI |
ކ | 1926 | 0786 | THAANA LETTER KAAFU |
އ | 1927 | 0787 | THAANA LETTER ALIFU |
ވ | 1928 | 0788 | THAANA LETTER VAAVU |
މ | 1929 | 0789 | THAANA LETTER MEEMU |
ފ | 1930 | 078A | THAANA LETTER FAAFU |
ދ | 1931 | 078B | THAANA LETTER DHAALU |
ތ | 1932 | 078C | THAANA LETTER THAA |
ލ | 1933 | 078D | THAANA LETTER LAAMU |
ގ | 1934 | 078E | THAANA LETTER GAAFU |
ޏ | 1935 | 078F | THAANA LETTER GNAVIYANI |
ސ | 1936 | 0790 | THAANA LETTER SEENU |
ޑ | 1937 | 0791 | THAANA LETTER DAVIYANI |
ޒ | 1938 | 0792 | THAANA LETTER ZAVIYANI |
ޓ | 1939 | 0793 | THAANA LETTER TAVIYANI |
ޔ | 1940 | 0794 | THAANA LETTER YAA |
ޕ | 1941 | 0795 | THAANA LETTER PAVIYANI |
ޖ | 1942 | 0796 | THAANA LETTER JAVIYANI |
ޗ | 1943 | 0797 | THAANA LETTER CHAVIYANI |
ޘ | 1944 | 0798 | THAANA LETTER TTAA |
ޙ | 1945 | 0799 | THAANA LETTER HHAA |
ޚ | 1946 | 079A | THAANA LETTER KHAA |
ޛ | 1947 | 079B | THAANA LETTER THAALU |
ޜ | 1948 | 079C | THAANA LETTER ZAA |
ޝ | 1949 | 079D | THAANA LETTER SHEENU |
ޞ | 1950 | 079E | THAANA LETTER SAADHU |
ޟ | 1951 | 079F | THAANA LETTER DAADHU |
ޠ | 1952 | 07A0 | THAANA LETTER TO |
ޡ | 1953 | 07A1 | THAANA LETTER ZO |
ޢ | 1954 | 07A2 | THAANA LETTER AINU |
ޣ | 1955 | 07A3 | THAANA LETTER GHAINU |
ޤ | 1956 | 07A4 | THAANA LETTER QAAFU |
ޥ | 1957 | 07A5 | THAANA LETTER WAAVU |
ހަ | 1958 | 07A6 | THAANA ABAFILI (combined with haa (ހ)) |
ހާ | 1959 | 07A7 | THAANA AABAAFILI (combined with haa (ހ)) |
ހި | 1960 | 07A8 | THAANA IBIFILI (combined with haa (ހ)) |
ހީ | 1961 | 07A9 | THAANA EEBEEFILI (combined with haa (ހ)) |
ހު | 1962 | 07AA | THAANA UBUFILI (combined with haa (ހ)) |
ހޫ | 1963 | 07AB | THAANA OOBOOFILI (combined with haa (ހ)) |
ހެ | 1964 | 07AC | THAANA EBEFILI (combined with haa (ހ)) |
ހޭ | 1965 | 07AD | THAANA EYBEYFILI (combined with haa (ހ)) |
ހޮ | 1966 | 07AE | THAANA OBOFILI (combined with haa (ހ)) |
ހޯ | 1967 | 07AF | THAANA OABOAFILI (combined with haa (ހ)) |
ހް | 1968 | 07B0 | THAANA SUKUN (combined with haa (ހ)) |
ޱ | 1969 | 07B1 | THAANA LETTER NAA |
Copyright © 1999–2009 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 3.2 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2002 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in April 2002.
Created 4th October 1999 Last updated 25th November 2009