U+0DA6 "ඦ" Sinhala Letter Sanyaka Jayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ඦ
U+0DA6 "ඦ" Sinhala Letter Sanyaka Jayanna is a historically significant but obsolete consonant used in classical Sinhala and Pali texts, representing a retroflex nasal sound that combines a nasalized "nya" component with a specific diacritic marking. It belongs to the Sinhala script block and is rarely used in modern Sinhala writing, having largely been replaced by simpler consonant combinations in contemporary language. This letter is primarily encountered by scholars and typographers working with ancient manuscripts or linguistic reconstructions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DA6 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Sanyaka Jayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ඦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ඦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB6 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DA6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DA6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0da6 |