U+0D9C "ග" Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Gayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ග
U+0D9C "ග" Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Gayanna is a consonant in the Sinhala script used primarily to write the Sinhala language in Sri Lanka. It represents the voiced velar plosive sound /ɡ/ and is categorized as an "alpapraana" or unaspirated letter, meaning it is pronounced without a strong burst of air. This character belongs to the Sinhala block of the Unicode standard and is encoded at code point U+0D9C, serving as a fundamental building block in Sinhala orthography for forming words and syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D9C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Gayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ග |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ග |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d9c |