U+0DA3 "ඣ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Jayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ඣ
U+0DA3 "ඣ" Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Jayanna is a character in the Sinhala script used to write the Sinhala language, primarily spoken in Sri Lanka. It represents a voiced aspirated palatal affricate sound, phonetically similar to "dʒha" in English, and belongs to the "Mahaapraana" or "strongly aspirated" category of consonants in Sinhala phonology. This letter is derived from the ancient Brahmi script and is part of a set of aspirated consonants that are distinct in Sinhala from their unaspirated counterparts, highlighting the language's rich phonetic tradition. In modern usage, it appears in transliterations of Sanskrit and Pali loanwords, as well as in formal literary contexts, though its frequency in everyday speech is relatively low.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DA3 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Mahaapraana Jayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ඣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ඣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DA3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0da3 |