U+0D88 "ඈ" Sinhala Letter Aeeyanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ඈ
U+0D88 "ඈ" Sinhala Letter Aeeyanna is a vowel in the Sinhala script, representing the low back unrounded vowel sound /æː/, similar to the 'a' in the English word "cat" but elongated. It is used in the Sinhala language, primarily spoken in Sri Lanka, to form syllables by attaching to consonants or standing alone at the beginning of words. This character belongs to the Sinhala block in the Unicode standard, encoding a distinct phoneme that is essential for correct spelling and pronunciation in literary and colloquial Sinhala.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D88 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Aeeyanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ඈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ඈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d88 |