U+0D8F "ඏ" Sinhala Letter Iluyanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ඏ
U+0D8F "ඏ" Sinhala Letter Iluyanna is a character used in the Sinhala script, the writing system of the Sinhalese language spoken in Sri Lanka, where it represents a specific vowel sound that is now largely archaic and rarely used in modern Sinhala. Historically known as "iluyanna" or "ilu pilla," it denotes a vowel that typically corresponds to a short form of the vocalic "l" sound, often transcribed as "l̥" or "li." This letter belongs to the Sinhala block within the Unicode Standard, encoded for digital text representation, and its usage is predominantly confined to preserving the orthography of classical or liturgical texts, such as those in Pali, rather than in everyday contemporary writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D8F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Iluyanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ඏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ඏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d8f |