U+0D9B "ඛ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Kayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ඛ
U+0D9B "ඛ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Kayanna is a symbol used in the Sinhala script to represent the aspirated velar plosive sound, roughly equivalent to the "kh" sound in English words like "blockhead." It belongs to the consonant inventory of Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Sri Lanka, and the term "Mahaapraana Kayanna" denotes its classification as a high-aspiration consonant, distinguishing it from its non-aspirated counterpart. This character is encoded in the Unicode Sinhala block, which supports the writing system's rich phonetic distinctions, and it plays a role in preserving accurate pronunciation and spelling in Sinhala text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D9B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Kayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ඛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ඛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D9B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d9b |