U+0DA0 "ච" Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Cayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ච
U+0DA0 "ච" Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Cayanna is a fundamental consonant in the Sinhala script, representing the unaspirated, voiceless palatal affricate sound /t͡ʃa/, similar to the 'cha' in the English word "chat". As the first letter in the Sinhala alphabet's fourth row, it belongs to the group of palatal consonants and is used in writing both native Sinhala words and loanwords. The term "Alpapraana" signifies that it is a "light" or unaspirated sound, distinguishing it from its aspirated counterpart, the Mahapraana Cayanna.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DA0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Alpapraana Cayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ච |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ච |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0da0 |