U+0DA1 "ඡ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Cayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ඡ
U+0DA1 "ඡ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Cayanna is a character in the Sinhala script, representing the aspirated voiceless palatal stop consonant sound, pronounced similarly to the "ch" sound in the English word "cheese" but with an added breath of air. It belongs to the category of "Mahaapraana" or "heavy breath" consonants in Sinhala phonetics, distinguishing it from its unaspirated counterpart. This letter is used in the Sinhala language of Sri Lanka, where it appears in both indigenous words and loanwords, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital text representation and processing of the Sinhala writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DA1 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Cayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ඡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ඡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DA1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DA1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0da1 |