U+0D87 "ඇ" Sinhala Letter Aeyanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ඇ
U+0D87 "ඇ" Sinhala Letter Aeyanna is a vowel in the Sinhala script used primarily in Sri Lanka, representing a short, open-mid front unrounded sound similar to the 'a' in the English word "cat." This character is an essential component of the Sinhala alphabet, where it functions as an independent vowel and also appears in a modified form as a diacritic sign when combined with consonants. In digital text processing, U+0D87 falls within the Sinhala Unicode block ranging from U+0D80 to U+0DFF, and it is widely used in modern computing to accurately represent the Sinhala language in electronic documents, emails, and websites.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D87 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Aeyanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ඇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ඇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D87 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d87 |