U+0D9D "ඝ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Gayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ඝ
U+0D9D "ඝ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Gayanna is a consonant used in the Sinhala script, primarily representing a voiced velar aspirated sound, similar to the "gh" in English "loghouse" but with a breathy release. It belongs to the "Mahaapraana" or aspirated consonant series in the Sinhala language, distinguishing it from its unaspirated counterpart "ග" (Ga) through a stronger, more pronounced outflow of air. This character is part of the Brahmi-derived abugida writing system used for Sinhala, the official language of Sri Lanka, and appears in historical and modern texts, though it is less common in everyday speech and more frequent in loanwords or formal literary contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D9D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Gayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ඝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ඝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D9D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D9D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d9d |