U+0DA4 "ඤ" Sinhala Letter Taaluja Naasikyaya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0DA4 "ඤ" Sinhala Letter Taaluja Naasikyaya is a specific glyph in the Sinhala script block used to represent a palatal nasal consonant, pronounced similarly to the "ny" sound in the English word "canyon." It is an essential component of the Sinhala alphabet, which is employed to write the Sinhalese language, the native language of the Sinhala people in Sri Lanka. This character, with its distinctive curled shape, is part of a larger set of Sinhala letters that include various diacritics and modifiers to denote vowel sounds and other phonetic nuances.

General Properties

Code Point U+0DA4
Version Added 3.0
Name Sinhala Letter Taaluja Naasikyaya
Block Sinhala
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ඤ
HTML Hex Encoding ඤ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xB6 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0DA4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000DA4
C/C++/Java Escape \u0da4

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Sinhala
Script Extensions Sinhala
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter