U+0D81 "ඁ" Sinhala Sign Candrabindu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ඁ
U+0D81 "ඁ" Sinhala Sign Candrabindu is a diacritical mark used in the Sinhala script to represent the candrabindu, a nasalization sign that indicates a nasalized vowel sound, typically lengthening and nasalizing the preceding vowel. It appears as a small crescent with a dot above it and is historically or traditionally applied in specific linguistic or orthographic contexts, such as in Sanskrit-derived loanwords or in poetic and liturgical texts. This character is part of the Sinhala block in Unicode and serves to modify the phonetic quality of the syllable, distinguishing it from other nasal markers like anusvara.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D81 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Sign Candrabindu |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ඁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ඁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D81 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D81 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d81 |